Roberts A (ed.). 2011. Homo heidelbergensis.

En:
Roberts A (ed.). Evolution. The human story. Dorling
Kindersley. Londres. pg. 134-141.

This species was probably the last common . ':,

ancestor of Neanderthals, in Europe, and
modern humans, in Af~ica.

EXCAVATING AT GRAN DOLINA

Gran Dolin a has seven layers of archaeology.

Layer
rich in stone tools and animal
habit'?-tion by H.

About 500,000 years ago, Boxgrove in West

Sussex, UK, was the site of a tidallagoon, beach,
and limestone cliffs. Excavations in a local quarry
led by archaeologist Mark Roberts revealed a rich
record of early hominin occupation. Acheulean
artifacts, including very finely knapped handaxes,
were found in association with mammals such as
horses, giant deer, and rhinoceroses, which may
have been hunted while they visited the lagoon .
Two lower incisors and a parta! shin bone provide
evidence of the hominin colonizers themselves.

This sh in bone of an
adult male, found in
1993, is ascribed to
H. heidefbergensis.

lt seems to have