"Excavations
of a complex of caves in the Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain have unearthed hominin fossils that range in age from the early
Pleistocene to the Holocene.
One of these sites, the ‘Sima de los
Huesos’ (‘pit of bones’), has yielded the world’s largest
assemblage of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils, consisting of at
least 28 individuals dated to over 300,000 years ago. The skeletal
remains share a number of morphological features with fossils
classified as Homo heidelbergensis and also display distinct
Neanderthal-derived traits."
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