Spanish 'Pit of the Bones' yields 17 remarkable early human skulls

Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 16:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The name of the cave may sound bleak - Sima de los Huesos, Spanish for "Pit of the Bones" - but the site in northern Spain's Atapuerca mountain range is providing a wondrous peek into a remote period in the history of early humans.

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