Sima de las Palomas

Sima de las Palomas is a cave shaft on Cabezo Gordo in the Murcia region of Spain, inhabited for tens of thousands of years by Neanderthals and other hominins [1]. The shaft was filled with brecciated material during the Late Pleistocene and partly excavated by miners in the 19th century [1]. In the 1990s, human fossil remains including Neanderthals were discovered in the rubble, and excavations in 2006-2007 revealed a nearly complete skeleton of a young Neanderthal woman, possibly buried with her child [1].