Atapuerca (Spain) is a special place that was inhabited for longer periods throughout history by different species of hominids. If we were Cro-Magnon, in Atapuerca find a suitable place to settle: a cool climate protection, relatively near the sea and its food, and a saw with rivers, with fish and animals of the mountains. Wide variety of animals have been sheltered in the caves during periods in which they were inhabited by hominids. These animals have been found cave bears, animals that just before he died, when they sensed that they had not long to live, is venturing into the cave so that nobody bothered and could die in peace. Not only
caves inhabited by bears have also been found fossilized bones of woolly rhinoceroses and bison, foxes, cats and even saber-toothed hominid skulls with holes that were produced by large saber-toothed cats.
For thousands of years, the Atapuerca hominids lived in a discontinuous way. Among the fossil hominid fossils have been found ranging from the last recognized, the ancestor homo, through the homo heidelbergensis, Neanderthals and of course the artist's images Altamira Homo sapiens.
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