Archaeological Site of Atapuerca

World Heritage

Spain

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The caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca contain a rich record of the earliest human fossils in Europe, dating back nearly a million years and extending into the Common Era. They represent an exceptional repository of data, the scientific study of which can provide valuable information about the appearance and lifestyle of these distant human ancestors.

# Archaeological sites

# Scientific research

# Human fossils

# Earliest humans in Europe

# Human Ancestors

# appearance

Location of the excavation sites in the railway ditch (after the visible protective roofs), (1) Entr...

The Homo heidelbergensis Cranium 5, one of the most important discoveries its nearly complete mandi...

Karst cave in Atapuerca

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Trinchera Zarpazos, part of the Galería system in 2006

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Map of the railway trench with discovery sites

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Information extracted from Wikidata

executive body	Archaeological Site of Atapuerca
location of creation	Atapuerca
Commons category	Archaeological Site of Atapuerca
coordinate location	Point(-3.51833 42.3525)
named as	Atapuerca (Španělsko : archeologická lokalita)
Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC) code	RI-55-0000176
Commons gallery	Atapuerca
start time	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
start time	2030-12-19T00:00:00Z
heritage designation	Siege of Sana'a
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (v)

image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dolina-Pano-3.jpg
media legend	Excavacions al jaciment el 2008, al fons el nivell TD10 i a sota les planxes el TD6