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The Sima de los Huesos

Ibeas de Juarros, Burgos (Alfoz), Burgos

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The Sima de los Huesos

Nature · Ibeas de Juarros, Burgos (Alfoz), Burgos

Image of Ibeas de Juarros, not of the place itself.

At the bottom of a thirteen-metre shaft, at the end of a gallery of the Cueva Mayor, appeared the largest accumulation of human fossils in the world: thousands of remains of Homo heidelbergensis, among them the so-called Skull 5.

Photo: LBM1948 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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