TY - SER AU - Gibert,J. AU - Gibert,Ll AU - Iglesias,A. AU - Maestro,E. TI - Two 'Oldowan' assemblages in the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the Orce region, southeast Spain KW - ANTROPOLOGIA N1 - Antiquity 72 (1999): 17Ð25 N2 - Stone artefacts reported from the Orce region (Grenada, Spain) indicate a first human presence in western Europe as early as the Plio-Pleistocene boundary, making a long chronology for European hominids against the claims for a briefer human presence. Excavations of Barranco León-5 and Fuentenueva-3a in 1995 have produced two groups of lithic artefacts of 'Oldowan' type, seen as the most ancient of western Europe by fauna associations and palaeomagnetic study ER -