Archaeological Site of Atapuerca

UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000) in Burgos province, northern Spain, containing the richest fossil record of early humans in Europe. The Gran Dolina cave yielded over 160 bone fragments from at least eleven individuals dated 850,000-780,000 years ago, attributed to the species Homo antecessor. More than 30% of these bones bear cut marks indicating cannibalism, the oldest known evidence of this practice. The Sima de los Huesos pit produced thousands of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils, making Atapuerca essential to understanding human evolution in western Europe.