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Atapuerca Mountains
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Atapuerca Mountains
The
Atapuerca Mountains
(Sierra de Atapuerca
in
Spanish
) is an ancient
karstic
region of
Spain
, in the province of
Burgos
,
Castile and Leon
and near
Atapuerca
and
Ibeas de Juarros
. It contains several caves, where fossils and stone tools of the earliest known
Hominin
s in
Western Europe
have been found, belonging to the species
Homo antecessor
(or
Homo erectus antecessor
) and
Homo heidelbergensis
. These hominid remains, representing the earliest known in western Europe, have been dated as being up to 1.2 million and 600 thousand years old, respectively. These caves, known collectively as the "
Archeological Site of Atapuerca]
, are a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site
.
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