They had just begun to lift the layer of the TD6-2 sublevel of Gran Dolina when the stone tools and the remains of fauna began to appear. Then 25 human fossils emerged — teeth, vertebrae, bones of hands and feet, an almost complete ulna and fragments of humerus and tibia. They belonged to Homo ancestor, the species that 850,000 years ago inhabited the Sierra de Atapuerca. With them, the catalogue of this enigmatic population already exceeds two …
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They had just begun to lift the layer of the TD6-2 sublevel of Gran Dolina when the stone tools and the remains of fauna began to appear. Then 25 human fossils emerged — teeth, vertebrae, bones of hands and feet, an almost complete ulna and fragments of humerus and tibia. They belonged to Homo ancestor, the species that 850,000 years ago inhabited the Sierra de Atapuerca. With them, the catalogue of this enigmatic population already exceeds two …