ENLACES ATAPUERCA

http://www.efossils.org/site/atapuerca

https://www.atapuerca.org/

http://www.atapuerca.tv/atapuerca/

https://www.britannica.com/place/Atapuerca

https://www.slideshare.net/salvafuentes8/bones-pit-atapuerca

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/origins/homo_antecessor.php

Atapuerca
Excavations of the Atapuerca caves began in 1984. The caves contain prehistoric art
as well as bones of humans and prehistoric animals. Archaeologists through their
examination of the material have been worked out that the site was inhabited by humans
around 800,000 years ago! However the archaeologists have actually been able to
discover far more details about the prehistoric population: by analysing some of the
bones which were found in the caves archaeologists have revealed that the people who
used the cave were cannibals. This discovery provides the earliest known evidence of
cannibalism. The site contains an area which is now known as the Sima de los Huesos,
the bone pit. When it was excavated more than 5,000 human bones were found. Due to
the high numbers of bones found all in the one area of the site, it is thought that this area
may have been a burial ground for the people.

However there is more to the site than just bones alone! The site also contains a gallery
of carvings, some of which date back to the Bronze Age. It was made a UNESCO
world heritage site in 2000. The reason that the site is of such great international
importance is that it provides great evidence about on of the earliest known European
communities and their ways of life. Thus Spain’s archaeological sights are of great
importance in shedding light upon both prehistoric Spain and European populations.