Hiding to eat: the role of carnivores in the early Middle Pleistocene from the TD8 level of Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

►A multidisciplinary study is carried out to identify the carnivore that acts at TD8. ►TD8 is not entirely correlated with the features traditionally used to define dens. ►TD8 fits in the range of diversity documented among modern hyena dens. ►This study provides new data about the carnivore dens during the Middle Pleistocene.