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What is Atapuerca Skull?
In 1995, three Spanish paleontologists from the University of Madrid found a fossil in
the Gran Dolina cave in Spain's Atapuerca region. It was a section of the facial bones
of an 11 year-old child that is identical to human children living today. But the child
died 800,000 years ago! This was a surprising discovery for evolutionists, who did not hope
that *** sapiens (modern-day human beings) lived so long ago.
The December 1996 issue of Discovery magazine gave it wide coverage. This fossil even shook
the convictions about evolution of the head of the Gran Dolina research team, Arsuaga
Ferreras, who said:
" We expected something big, something large, something inflated—you know, something primitive.
Our expectation of an 800,000-year-old boy was something like Turkana Boy. And what we
found was a totally modern face. . . To me this is most spectacular—these are the kinds
of things that shake you. Finding something totally unexpected like that. Not finding
fossils; finding fossils is unexpected too, and it's okay. But the most spectacular thing
is finding something you thought belonged to the present, in the past. It's like finding
something like—like a tape recorder in Gran Dolina. That would be very surprising. We
don't expect cassettes and tape recorders in the Lower Pleistocene. Finding a modern
face 800,000 years ago—it's the same thing. We were very surprised when we saw it."
This fossil indicated that the history of *** sapiens had to be pushed 800,000 years
into the past. But according to the human family tree fabricated by evolutionists, H.
sapiens could not have lived 800,000 years earlier. Deciding that this fossil belonged
to another species, they invented an imaginary species called *** antecessor and assigned
the Atapuerca skull to it.