Atapuerca

It is a new parietal bone found in the Sima de los Huesos, in Atapuerca. Paleontologists are reconstructing the skeletons of some thirty individuals with thousands of fossil remains

Nuclear DNA sequencing has provided the key.

The Atapuerca fossils reveal a new model in the evolution of the human body: bigger but with less brain.

It is the trace or vestige of animals or plants that lived in the past, and it is located in sedimentary rocks.

The team of paleontologists, in the middle of the excavation campaign, plans to make their way to still hidden caves of previous chronology, which house hominid remains from 2 million years ago, a dating only found to date in the "Cradle of Humanity". in Olduvai (Tanzania).

A new study has specified the age of the oldest strata of the Atapuerca deposit at 900,000 years.

Today a historical paleontological finding is published in the journal Nature. Collaboration between German and Spanish researchers has led to the sequencing of the oldest human genome found to date, dating back 400,000 years.

After the discovery of the oldest human jaw found in Atapuerca, dating back 1.2 million years, they have just announced a surprising new paleontological find. They have managed to unearth a Cretaceous flint dating back 1.5 million years, making it the oldest in Western Europe. The tool would be at the limit accepted so far as the first occupation of the area, just in those 1.5 million years.