New geological datings place the first European hominids in the south of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 million years ago (IMAGE)

University of Barcelona

New geological datings place the first European hominids in the south of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 million years ago

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The data of this study are very precise thanks to the long sedimentary sequence that outcrops in Orce, with 15 vertebrate deposits superimposed in different stratigraphic positions.

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LLUÍS GIBERT - UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

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