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Approximate age:450,000 years old=average of minimum (0.43 Ma) and maximum (0.47 Ma)

Date based on: U-series and Biochronology correlation with OIS 12 See map of sites with similar ages

Dating reference: Wood, B. (Ed.). (2011). Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hominids:       

Archaeology:undiagnostic flakes      

Important specimens: Pleistocene fauna, some with cutmarks. Ambrona was originally seen as important due to its indications of hunter, but later investigators have questioned the nature of the relationship of the modified bones to the hominids that modified them. Currently there is no consensus if it was hunting or scavenging. Originally connected temporally to Torralba (nearby), later dating has revised Ambrona as the older site.

Notes:

Location: Masegar River, Spain
Map location/coordinates reference: Plot is on east side of excavations at site.

Key references:   Wood, B. (Ed.). (2011). Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set: Wiley-Blackwell.; Reference to ochre comes from Semiotix Course 2006, Cognition and symbolism in human evolution:Robert Bednarik

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