Atapuerca, also known as Sierra de Atapuerca or Sierra Atapuerca, is an ancient karst topography region of Spain, containing several caves such as the Gran Dolina site, where fossils and stone tools of the one of the earliest known hominids in Europe have been found, dating to between 780,000 and 1 million years ago. It is believed that the fossils may belong to either Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, or a new species called Homo antecessor. Karst topography is a landscape of distinctive dissolution patterns often marked by underground drainages. ... Gran Dolina is a cave site in the Atapuerca region of Spain, where archaeologists have found five or six hominids dating to between 800,000 to 1 million years ago. ... Genera Subfamily Ponginae Pongo - Orangutans Gigantopithecus (extinct) Sivapithecus (extinct) Subfamily Homininae Gorilla - Gorillas Pan - Chimpanzees Homo - Humans Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Pierolapithecus (extinct) (tentative) The Hominids (Hominidae) are a biological family which includes humans, extinct species of humanlike creatures and the other great apes... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Binomial name Homo erectus Dubois, 1894 Homo erectus (upright man) is a hominid species that is believed to be an ancestor of modern humans. ... Binomial name Homo heidelbergensis Schoetensack, 1908 Homo heidelbergensis is an extinct species of the genus Homo and the common ancestor of both Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis) and Cro-Magnon man (Homo sapiens). ... Binomial name Homo antecessor Bermudez de Castro et al. ...

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American Museum of Natural History-Atapuerca