Torralba and Ambrona - Archaeological Site

Torralba and Ambrona are two paleontological and archaeological sites that correspond to various fossiliferous levels with Acheulean lithic industry associated, at least about 350,000 years old [1]. The sites, traditionally studied together, are about 3 km distant [1]. From these sites have been obtained fossils of large mammals, mainly elephants, with remains of nearly fifty individuals from each site, in addition to large bovines and horses [1]. The sites show evidence of successive occupations by human beings, who had a hunting station or, more likely, scavanged carrion and carried out quartering [1]. The American anthropologist Francis Clark Howell conducted six excavation campaigns in Torralba and Ambrona, between 1961 and 1963 and in 1980, 1981 and 1983 [1]. The abundant accumulations of elephant remains in Ambrona are similar to the modern sites popularly known as "Elephants' graveyards" [1].