Science does not understand illusions. A few days before the start of a new campaign at the exceptional sites of Orce, the director of the project, Juan Manuel Jiménez Arenas, is tentative when talking about finding human remains, lithic industry, carved bones or traces of hearths. However, his voice (the interview is conducted over the phone) takes on a tone that could almost be considered enthusiastic when he talks about reptile or amphibian bones and pollen. This year the aim is to follow the traces that allow us to sketch what the climate and habitat was like in the Lower Pleistocene at Orce. Jiménez Arenas, director of the General Research Project ProyectOrce since 2017, is a professor in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology and director of the University Institute of Peace and Conflict. The value of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva III is immense, as the first human occupations of the continent have been found here, at least in this part of Europe. There will be 25 researchers in a few weeks of work that are expected to be exceptional. Only the number of volunteers has been reduced. "Although we have reduced the quantity, we will not reduce the quality.

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