Atapuerca is a Spanish town in the province of Burgos, Castile-Leon, that gives name to the Sierra de Atapuerca or Sierra Atapuerca, an ancient karstic region of Spain, containing several caves such as the Gran Dolina site, where fossils and stone tools of the earliest known hominids in Europe have been found. It is excavated by a team led jointly by Eudald Carbonell, José María Bermúdez de Castro and Juan Luis Arsuaga. Early hominids According to José María… (More on Atapuerca)