Atapuerca

On the way home from Galicia, just out of Burgos, we stopped at Atapuerca, where in the 1970s they started excavating an enormous prehistoric site; basically a 900,000 year-old dump, full of the bones of people and animals. There is so much material in this vast excavation site, apparently, that they dig for one-and-a-half months every year, and the rest of the time is spent examining the findings.

Group beginning the visit.

One of the excavation sites.