Talk:Atapuerca Mountains

This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Spain C‑class Mid‑importance

	Spain portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Spain, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Spain on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SpainWikipedia:WikiProject SpainTemplate:WikiProject SpainSpain articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Archaeology Unassessed

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Archaeology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Archaeology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchaeologyWikipedia:WikiProject ArchaeologyTemplate:WikiProject ArchaeologyArchaeology articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

World Heritage Sites Unassessed

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject World Heritage Sites, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of World Heritage Sites on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.World Heritage SitesWikipedia:WikiProject World Heritage SitesTemplate:WikiProject World Heritage SitesWorld Heritage Sites articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Untitled

In the future, it would be necessary to create different articles for Atapuerca (town), Atapuerca Mountains and Archaeological Site of Atapuerca, is not? --La Fuente (talk) 13:51, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ref

Martinez et al., ʺTwo Middle Pleistocene Human Hyoid Bones from the Sima de los Huesos Site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)ʺ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.183.158 (talk) 21:07, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"New" species

A better expression would be "newly discovered species". I fixed one occurrence, leaving the remainder as an exercise. Kortoso (talk) 19:56, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What does "BP" Mean?

"A child with craniosynostosis was found dated to 530,000 BP and provides evidence for food sharing in early humans.[2]" What does this mean? "British Petroleum"? "Before Plato"?Jonny Quick (talk) 20:34, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Before present. :)User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 20:38, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And of course there's a Wikipedia article. Before_Present — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Gulutzan (talk • contribs) 16:53, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Denisovan DNA

A recent article in Nature magazine reports of Denisovan DNA in a 400,000-yr.-old femur found at Sima de los Huesos. This important find is mentioned in the Wikipedia Denisovans article, where the Nature article is referenced and discussed in the NYT of 2013.12.05 ("Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins").Kdammers (talk) 09:41, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Denisovan, per se, but closer to Denisovan than to Neandertal. This line split from the Denisovan line much earlier than the Neandertal line split from the anatomically modern human line. There is a nice chart showing the relationship at Dienekes' Anthropolgy Blog (December 4, 2013) (which I am not linking because I'm not sure of the source for that chart). It is also notable that this is by far the oldest hominin mtDNA sequenced to date. As this is mtDNA, it tells us nothing about any subsequent breeding between lines, which apparently did occur between the Denisovan, Neandertal and AMH lines. -- Donald Albury 14:43, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think the Sima de los Huesos section should be updated with something on this. It's the oldest human DNA that has been analyzed. Iselilja (talk) 14:54, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It would be nice if someone who has access to Nature could update based on the article, rather than relying exclusively on news reports (which filter the results in various ways). -- Donald Albury 17:29, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

THE LARGEST ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE FOR HUMAN FOSSILS IN THE WORLD Atapuerca is by far, the largest archeological site for human fossils in the World. Usually what is found in other arecheological sites is an skull, a mandible, half of an skeleton or a couple....but finding hundreds of complete skeletons from the last million of years is something incredible. Over 5,500 human bones until now, some from 1,2 million B.C. to 800,000 B.C. and thousands of skeletons from the next 700,000 years. --81.38.47.114 (talk) 13:22, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]