Talk:Atapuerca Mountains

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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)

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)

"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)

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

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)


 * 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)
 * 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)


 * 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)

The article here makes statements such as "they were neanderthals", not "early neanderthals", like SCIAM puts it, and "not Denisovans", which at least the SCIAM article doesn't mention, and in fact, emphasize there's a "puzzling link". They necessarily shared a common ancestor at some point, and it was certainly more "recently" for early neanderthals than for late neanderthals, at least excluding interbreeding events.

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)

clean up
Hi! I allowed myself a little clean up today. Please feel free to correct me, supplement, revert errors, etc.All the best Wikirictor  09:11, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

'number' confusion
the article states...The earliest specimen yet unearthed and reliably dated confirm an age between 1.2 Million and 600,000 years. does anybody know if this should this be 'specimens' to agree with 'confirm' or 'confirms' to agree with 'specimen'? Potholehotline (talk) 17:52, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I would not trust the statement at all. There are two references at the end of the paragraph, and the first says that human fossils date back almost a million years, while the second cites a paper which dates antecessor fossils to 780,000 years ago. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:20, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I have now found a reference at . Dudley Miles (talk) 08:20, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

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