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Atapuerca

Karstic hill complex in northern Spain holding the richest and oldest hominin fossil record in Western Europe, occupied in turn by Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 1,200,000 years ago mainstream
  earliest hominin fossil evidence in Western Europe (Sima del Elefante) source
• about 800,000 years ago mainstream
  Homo antecessor remains and early tools (Gran Dolina) source

Where

42.3500° N, 3.5000° W

Sources

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08681-0
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_site_of_Atapuerca

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