New geological datings place the first European hominids at Orce, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, 1.3 million years ago
UMA scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the ‘elephant graveyard’ of Fuente Nueva 3, Orce
A 600,000-year-old bone from Notarchirico, Italy, provides the earliest evidence of cave lions in southern Europe
An extreme glacial cooling event around 1.1 million years ago challenges the idea of continuous early human occupation of Europe
Neanderthals are not the only species whose dentition is characterized by the possession of thin enamel: it was previously found in Homo Antecessor
A new study strengthens the hypothesis that the settlement of Europe could have been the result of several waves of migration at different times by a common source population
The remains of a primitive badger found in the Cueva de los Toriles (Carrizosa, Ciudad Real, Spain) have allowed to date it to the Early-Middle Pleistocene
