Sima de los Huesos, or the "Pit of Bones," is a significant archaeological site located in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain, near the town of Ibeas de Juarros, in the Burgos Province.

The fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we ...

Facial bones dated to between 1.4 and 1.1 million years old have been found in a cave in the Atapuerca mountains in Spain. They are the oldest bones of their kind in Western Europe, and ...

In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon"), ...

The Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain are home to the Sima de los Huesos, or "Pit of Bones," which has offered one of the ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In a system of caves in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, nearly 50 years of systematic archaeological excavations have unearthed evidence of increasingly ancient human ...

"Pink" provides further evidence that the Atapuerca Mountains formed an important corridor rich in natural resources that humans and animals passed through 1.4 million years ago, likely after arriving ...

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

The left cheekbone and upper jaw of a partial skull belonging to an extinct human species were discovered at the Sima del Elefante cave near the Atapuerca Mountains in Burgos in 2022, according to ...

Found at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossils make up a partial skull comprised of the left side of the face of an adult hominin. The mineralized bones are the earliest ...