UMA scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the ‘elephant graveyard’ of Orce (IMAGE)

University of Malaga

UMA scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the ‘elephant graveyard’ of Orce

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Located at Fuente Nueva-3, this Early Pleistocene site contains some of the earliest evidence of human presence in Western Europe

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Dibujo Mauricio Antón Hienas+Mamut-Color

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