Atapuerca is an important archaeological site located in Spain that has remains from different human species that lived in the area over hundreds of thousands of years. The site contains fossils of Homo antecessor from 900,000 years ago, many fossils of Homo heidelbergensis around 400,000 years old, and evidence of Homo sapiens occupation from 4,000 years ago. Atapuerca has provided insight into human evolution in Europe by uncovering fossils from earlier human species.

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2. Where is Ataperca?
● Atapuerca is a location
and one municipality
located in the province of
Burgos, in the
autonomus community of
Castilla and Leon
(España).

3. What is the deposit?
● It is one of the most
important spots in the
world,the spot that has
made us rethink the
evolution of our species.

4. Homo Antecesor
● Its a dissapeared specie
considered the homid
specie.
● The oldest from Europe.
● Lived 900,000 years ago
● Tall,strong and with a
smaller brain than us.

5. Homo Heidelbergensis
● In Sima of the Bones in
the largest field of Homo
heidelbergensis or
preneanderthal about
400,000 years ago.

6. Homo Sapiens
● There are remains of
occupation by the Homo
sapines by about 4,000
years and Neolithic human
settlemets and megalithic
culture.

7. Homo Sapiens
● There are remains of
occupation by the Homo
sapines by about 4,000
years and Neolithic human
settlemets and megalithic
culture.