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First European Homo

About 1.4 million years ago, a female Homo (here named the “Lozana Andaluza”) and an individual of Natrix (grass snake) on a branch of the Tertiary relic Eucommia within a glacial refuge. The artistic ensemble aims to place these early Homo individuals in their vegetation landscape. The combination of Homo and Natrix in a pristine environment is reminiscent of the Book of Genesis (Eve tempted by the apple).

Carrión JS, Amorós G, Sánchez-Giner MV, Amorós A, Ochando J, Munuera M, Marín-Arroyo AB, Jiménez-Arenas JM. Greening a Lost World: paleoartistic investigations of the Early Pleistocene vegetation landscape in the First European´s Homeland. Quaternary Science Advances. Volume 14, June 2024, 100185

DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100185

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