Evidence found in Atapuerca hominids for more than 1 in 3 million years

Remains of several "macromamíferos, tentatively identified as a deer, the scientists suggest that the Atapuerca accumulation hominids could speak for more than 1, 3 million years, thus, to find, would be the oldest remains in Europe

One of the co, Eudald Carbonell, noted today in statements made on the sites that still "is not a scientific fact-checked, but has insisted that his experience, although there are no tool marks, probably there hominid intervention.

The discovery has occurred in a small tasting of the Sima del Elefante, "below the level at which this campaign has been a fragment of humerus which seems to correspond to the same individual who found the remains of the jaw in 2007 and which is dated at approximately 1, 3 million years.

A lack of confirmation in the laboratory, it is a Homo Anteccesor, which endorse the presence of this species in Atapuerca hare between 800,000 and 1, 3 million years.

It presents tools descarnación marks, indicating that this species practiced cannibalism, which also found evidence in the remains of 800,000 years.

Another of the co-deposits, José María Bermúdez de Castro, had come to insist that the Castilla y Leon to build a small bridge at the railroad trench, where the Sima del Elefante, to work under the soil in an area of about 15 or 20 meters square, in an attempt to locate remnants of the same or other significant individuals.

However, the site of Gran Dolina, where the rest of Homo Anteccesor for the first time this year has drawn tens of remains of this species, although the co-find out more within the next 7 to 9 years, when working extension at this level, you're spending the next most recent campaign at the site.