The Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain are home to the Sima de los Huesos, or "Pit of Bones," which has offered one of the most significant insights into the early history of humanity.

Sima de los Huesos, or the "Pit of Bones," is a significant archaeological site located in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain, near the town of Ibeas de Juarros, in the Burgos Province.

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In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon"), ...

The excavation and research team at Atapuerca receives funding from the Castille and León Department of Culture and Tourism, the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2021 ...

They discovered bones in a cave in the Atapuerca Mountains, a location already known for Homo antecessor fossils. As per New Scientist, Huguet, who published the research paper, The Earliest Human ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in the Atapuerca Mountains of Spain, remains dating from 1.2 to 1.4 million years ago have been unearthed, marking the earliest human presence identified in Western ...

Hyderabad: Fragments of face bones from a species of extinct human previously unknown, dating from between 1.2 million and 1.4 million years ago, were discovered in the caves in the Atapuerca ...