Descubierta en Atapuerca la primera necrópolis infantil del Calcolítico en Europa, que indica que los niños recibían un trato ...

El descubrimiento, realizado en la Galería del Sílex, aporta la primera evidencia directa del tratamiento funerario ...

The caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca contain a rich fossil record of the earliest human beings in Europe, from nearly one million years ago and extending up to the Common Era. They represent an ...

In a historic moment for paleoanthropology, the sites in the Sierra de Atapuerca have once again become the center of global attention thanks to the new remains of Homo antecessor found in the TD6 ...

Burgos is a medium-size historical town situated a little over two hundred kilometres north of Madrid, the capital of Spain. The gently rolling hills, known as the Sierra de Atapuerca (Unesco World ...

Scientists have put a face, but not an official name, to the earliest human ancestor ever found in Western Europe. This recently discovered hominin is a "new actor in the story of human evolution," ...

One of the issues of the Atapuerca sites that generates the most scientific debate is the dating of the strata where the fossils are found. A study has clarified that the sediment of Gran Dolina, ...

As far as mountains go, the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain aren't much to look at. In many places, they amount simply to scrub-covered, limestone hills rather than towering, craggy heights. If the ...

TARRAGONA, SPAIN—Human tooth marks and cut marks have been found on the bones of small carnivores in El Mirador Cave at Atapuerca. The cave had been used to shelter flocks of sheep and cattle, but ...

Human fossils have been found from the Ethiopian highlands to the Indonesian island of Java. However, the single site with the biggest deposits is located in northern Spain. About 150 miles north of ...