Atapuerca Project Presentation

On February 15, 2007, the Institute Servantes in Sofia and the National Institute of Archaeology and Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM-BAS) organized a joint presentation of the Atapuerca Project in Bulgaria. This event took place at the Servantes Institute in Sofia with the special participation of Dr. Ana Mateos Cachorro, archaeologist at the Human Evolution Research Center in Burgos (Spain) and a member of the Atapuerca Foundation. She presented the sensational discoveries and the archaeological sites in Atapuerca (northern Spain) in the context of the earliest evidence of hominid colonization in Europe during the early Pleistocene. On the part of Bulgaria, the presentation and following discussion were chaired by Dr. Maria Gurova, Head of the Prehistory Department at NAIM-BAS. The event was attended by many scholars, students and guests.