Prehistoric death ritual. Artwork showing Homo heidelbergensis hominids throwing one of their dead into the Sima de los Huesos (pit of bones), in the

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Prehistoric death ritual. Artwork showing Homo heidelbergensis hominids throwing one of their dead into the Sima de los Huesos (pit of bones), in the caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. It is thought that the remains found here were deposited as part of a symbolic ritual behaviour by H. heidelbergensis, an extinct hominid that forms a relatively recent part of the human evolutionary tree. The remains, found in the 1990s, date to around 400,000 years ago.

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