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Atapuerca, a World Heritage Site
Extensive discussion of the Spanish area's three archaeological sites, including fossils of Homo antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis. Features photo albums, discussion of stone toolmaking, VRML models of skull reconstructions, and a discussion of how H. antecessor forced a revision of the Homo family tree.

Genus Homo
Phylogeny, morphology and life history.

Peter Brown's Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology
Covers the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia, including archaic and modern Homo sapiens and Homo erectus. Also includes a PDF field guide to the human skeleton, and downloadable data files of anthropometric data on various historical and modern Asian and Australian collections.

Early Hominids
Radio report about a research team's discovery, in a Pleistocene cave site in Atapuerca, Spain, of a new species of hominid (Homo antecessor) that may be the common ancestor of both modern humans and Neanderthals.


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