Gran Dolina is a cave in the Atapuerca hills of Spain. A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Archaeologists have found five or six hominids on this site dating to between 850,000 to 780,000 years ago. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the "great apes" including the extinct and extant Humans Chimpanzees These early Spanish finds are at least 250,000 years older than any other hominid yet discovered in western Europe (Dmanisi is older). Dmanisi (დმანისი is a Townlet and Archaeological site in Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s It is still debated as to which species these fossils belong to, either Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, or a new species called Homo antecessor. Homo erectus ( Latin: "upright man" is an extinct species of the genus Homo, believed to have been the first hominin Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man" is an Extinct Species of the Genus Homo which may be the direct ancestor Homo antecessor is an extinct Hominin and a potential distinct species dating from 1
Some paleoanthropologists who have studied the findings at Gran Dolina argue Homo antecessor may give rise to Homo heidelbergensis, which eventually gives rise to neandertals. Homo antecessor is an extinct Hominin and a potential distinct species dating from 1 Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man" is an Extinct Species of the Genus Homo which may be the direct ancestor The Neanderthal (neɪˈændərtɑːl also with /niː-/ and /-θɔːl/ or Neandertal, is an extinct member of the Homo genus that is known from
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- Original text taken from Gran Dolina, part of the Dictionary of Archaeology at About. com
The erectus-like fossils were also found with retouched flake & core stone tools.
About 25% of the human remains found here showed the first evidence of cannibalism.
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