I received the following on a pleistocene site in Spain with hominoid fossils. I just glanced at it but it looks well done. Thought it might be of interest to some of you. For the ASA folks I will cc this to Glenn. He could tell us if it is any good. I work with fossil a bit older (Pennsylvanian).
From: patd@nhm.ac.uk
To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
Date: 11/26/01 7:23AM
Subject: paleonet new palaeontological website: Atapuerca, Human Heritage Site
Dear All:
I just upload the English version of the "Atapuerca, Human Heritage Site",
a website devoted to the Middle Pleistocene Atapuerca palaeontological
sites. The site was published previously in Spanish, my native language.
It contains about 1400 files, several hundreds of medium-high resolution
images, several QuicktimeVR panoramas of the sites, 3D models of pelvis and
crania of Homo heidelbergensis and almost one hour of video in high
resolution mpg format.
The site includes also some virtual fossils (VRML language) based on
medical tomography and 3D computerized reconstruction. Although these
virtual fossils are very simplified models of those used for research
purposes, they show the potential of VRML for educational purposes.
The Sierra de Atapuerca is an isolated hill of Cretaceous limestones in the
Northern part of Spain and, because of the importance of the
palaeontological Pleistocene sites, has been declared a Human Heritage site
by UNESCO last year. Since 1978, three sites (Sima de los Huesos, Gran
Dolina and Galerķa) have been excavated by several research institutions,
yielding one of the best collections of human remains and tools in the
world belonging to two different hominid species: Homo antecessor (800.000
yrs BP) and Homo heidelbergensis (300.000 yrs BP)
The Sima de Huesos site contains a bone-bearing breccia with a clay matrix
full of human fossils and carnivores. To date, more than 2000 human fossils
have been found in the Sima de los Huesos, including three very well
preserved crania, one of them a complete skull. These remains belong to at
least 32 individuals.
The web site is in http://www.ucm.es/info/paleo/ata/ and the english
version at: http://www.ucm.es/info/paleo/ata/english/
James Mahaffy (mahaffy@dordt.edu) Phone: 712 722-6279
Biology Department FAX : 712 722-1198
Dordt College, Sioux Center IA 51250
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