Atapuerca and the earliest Europeans

Caves exposed by an old railway cutting in the Sierra de Atapuerca, near Burgos, hold the oldest human fossils yet found in western Europe, more than a million years old. The Gran Dolina cave gave its name to a new species, Homo antecessor, and the Sima de los Huesos pit held the bones of at least 28 early ancestors of the Neanderthals.