page_title: Santarém District
section_title: Archeology
hierarchical_section_title: Santarém District / Archeology
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le crâne Aroeira 3. La partie manquante sombre est imaginée par miroir virtuel de la partie préservée. Dessin libre, d'après Daura et al. 2017. English: The Aroeira 3 cranium. The missing side in dark is guessed via virtually mirroring the preserved one. Hand-drawn, after Daura et al 2017.
context_page_description: The District of Santarém is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's Centro Region. The district capital is the city of Santarém.
  The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of 6,747 km², and a population of 475,344 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 70 people per sq. kilometer.
context_section_description: The village of Almonda, within the civil parish of Zibreira, is noted for the Aroeira cave, where the 400,000 year old Aroeira 3 skull of a Homo Heidelbergensis was discovered in 2014. It is the oldest trace of human habitation in Portugal.
caption: the Aroeira 3 skull of a 400,000 year old Homo Heidelbergensis,
  The oldest trace of human history in Portugal.
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