Fossil:

Atapuerca 5

Source: American Museum of Natural History

Site:

Sima de los Huesos Cave
Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain (37)

Discovered By:

Juan-Luis Arsuaga
07,08,1991 (37)

Estimated Age of Fossil:

300,000 ya
* determined by Radiometric data (1, 37)

Species Name:

Homo heidelbergensis (1)
Homo neanderthalensis (25)
Archaic Homo sapiens (37)

Gender:

Unknown (37)

Cranial Capacity:

1125 cc (1, 37)

Information:

More than 700 hominid fossils have been found at Sima de los Huesos (1, 37)

Interpretation:

Adult (1, 37)
Fossils represent early stage in Neanderthal evolution (25, 37)
Remains perhaps deliberately dumped into the cave (1)