Carbonell E, Bermúdez de Castro J M, Arsuaga J L, Díez J C, Rosas A, Cuenca-Bescós G, Sala R, Mosquera M, Rodríguez X P
Laboratori d'Arqueologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgii, Imperial Tarraco, Tarragona, Spain.
Science. 1995 Aug 11;269(5225):826-30. doi: 10.1126/science.7638598.
Human remains dating to more than 780,000 years ago are associated with a rich faunal and lithic assemblage in the Pleistocene cave site of Gran Dolina (TD), Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain. The micromammal species represent the late Biharian (Mimomys savini zone), and the lithic objects represent pre-Acheulean technology (Mode 1) and comes from the TD6 level below the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary. The Gran Dolina hominid fossils cannot be comfortably accommodated in any of the defined Homo species. They could be considered a primitive form of Homo heidelbergensis, but a new species might be named in the future if the sample is enlarged. The new human fossil evidence demonstrates that Western Europe was settled at least since the late early Pleistocene.
在西班牙布尔戈斯省阿塔普埃尔卡山脉的格兰多利纳（TD）更新世洞穴遗址中，发现了可追溯至78万多年前的人类遗骸，这些遗骸与丰富的动物群和石器组合相关联。小型哺乳动物物种代表了比哈里亚晚期（萨维尼鼠兔带），石器则代表了阿舍利文化之前的技术（模式1），且来自松山-布容界限以下的TD6层。格兰多利纳的人类化石无法轻易归入任何已定义的人属物种。它们可能被视为海德堡人的原始形态，但如果样本扩大，未来可能会命名一个新物种。新的人类化石证据表明，西欧至少从早更新世晚期就有人类定居。
