Cave Discoveries in Owners Direct Sierra Atapuerca

OWNERS DIRECT their clients to places to see but occasionally some spots are inadvertently missed. Spain is a rich resource for archaeology and discoveries are being made all the time. One such discovery happened during the cutting through of the mountainous region of Sierra de Atapuerca for a new railway. It was discovered during the 1960s and has proved a fantastic discovery, telling the story of early man and the discovery of yet another species called Homo Antecessor. Other discoveries like early cave paintings and bones some 350,000 years old, nearly 250,000 years before other similar discoveries in Europe, were also found there. The site has been designated by the local government of Castile y Leon Espacio Cultural as La Zona Arqueological Sierra de Atapuerca and is now a UNESCO heritage site.