Barranco León
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| Location | Orce |
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| Region | Province of Granada |
| Coordinates | 37°43′26.5620″N 02°27′02.8230″W / 37.724045000°N 2.450784167°W |
| Type | Archaeological site |
| History | |
| Periods | Pleistocene |
| Cultures | Oldowan |
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Barranco León is an archaeological site in Orce, Andalusia, Spain with an age range between 1.2 and 1.4 million of years.[1] It is noted for having yielded evidence of hominin occupation, including the milk tooth of a boy or girl of 10 years. After the tooth had been dated, its original owner (the "child of Orce") was hailed as having left the earliest anatomical evidence for humans in Western Europe.[2][3]
The site was excavated in 1995 by Josep Gibert i Clols and between 1999 and 2000 by Martínez Fernández y Toro.
Now situated in an arid area of Spain, the site was once at the edge of a lake. Among the large mammals were found Hippopotamus antiquus, Equus altidens, Felidae cf. Homotherium sp., Megaloceros sp. and Bovini gen. et indet.[4]
