The extinction of the giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris and a reappraisal of the Epivillafranchian and Galerian Hyaenidae in Europe: Faunal turnover during the …

A Iannucci, B Mecozzi, R Sardella, DA Iurino - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest Hyaenidae ever
existed and the one that perfectly embodied the distinctive bone-cracking adaptations of this …

[HTML][HTML] Not seen before. Unveiling depositional context and Mammuthus meridionalis exploitation at Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, southern Iberia) through taphonomy and …

J Yravedra, LA Courtenay… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Meat consumption by early hominins is a hotly debated issue. A key question concerns their
access to large mammal carcasses, including megafauna. Currently, the evidence of …

The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain)

I Toro-Moyano, B Martínez-Navarro, J Agustí… - Journal of Human …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Orce region has one of the best late Pliocene and early Pleistocene continental
paleobiological records of Europe. It is situated in the northeastern sector of the …

Homo vs. Pachycrocuta: earliest evidence of competition for an elephant carcass between scavengers at Fuente Nueva-3 (Orce, Spain)

MP Espigares, B Martínez-Navarro, P Palmqvist… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Homo and Pachycrocuta were the two major agents responsible for modifying and
accumulating bones during early Pleistocene times in Europe. However, although an …

Refining upon the climatic background of the early Pleistocene hominid settlement in Western Europe: Barranco León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, se …

HA Blain, I Lozano-Fernández, J Agustí… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza
Basin, SE Spain) have yielded thousands of Mode 1 or Oldowan lithic artifacts (both sites) …

Deciphering carnivoran competition for animal resources at the 1.46 Ma early Pleistocene site of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)

LA Courtenay, J Yravedra, D Herranz-Rodrigo… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Barranco León (Orce, Guadix Baza, Spain) is one of the sites with the oldest
evidence of human activity in south-western Europe. This site has yielded human remains in …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the Pleistocene occurrences and palaeobiology of Hippopotamus antiquus based on the record from the Barranc de la Boella Section (Francolí …

D Fidalgo, A Rosas, J Madurell-Malapeira… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The study of European Pleistocene Hippopotamus presents unresolved questions
and a lack of consensus among specialists being matter of hotly debate in the last decades …

Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events.

J Madurell-Malapeira, S Ros-Montoya… - 2014 - riuma.uma.es
The Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula is currently a focus of intense paleontological,
archaeological and geological research. To a large extent, these inquiries are intended to …

The archaic stone tool industry from Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3,(Orce, Spain): Evidence of the earliest hominin presence in southern Europe

IT Moyano, D Barsky, D Cauche, V Celiberti… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 sites are located in the Guadix-Baza Basin in Orce
(Andalusia, Spain) about 80 km from the Mediterranean Sea. The sites were accumulated in …

Déjà vu: on the use of meat resources by sabretooth cats, hominins, and hyaenas in the Early Pleistocene site of Fuente Nueva 3 (Guadix-Baza Depression, SE Spain …

P Palmqvist, G Rodríguez-Gómez… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The late Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Guadix-
Baza Depression, SE Spain), dated to~ 1.4 Ma, provides evidence on the subsistence …