2024
DOI: 10.1002/ar.25509
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How the Sima de los Huesos was won

Juan‐Luis Arsuaga,
Ignacio Martínez,
Ana Gracia‐Téllez
et al.

Abstract: Although the first discovery of a human fossil in the Sima de los Huesos took place in 1976, systematic excavations did not begin there until 1984. Since then, this site has been continuously excavated in month‐long camps. The site is dated by different radiometric techniques to between 430,000 and 300,000 years ago. Until the 2023 campaign, just over 7000 human fossils have been recovered, constituting the largest collection of fossils prior to Homo sapiens ever discovered. The fossils correspond to a minimum… Show more

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