• Day 13.0 - Museum of Human Evolution

    May 11 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C

    Yesterday I walked over the Atapuerca mountain, a limestone region which it turns out has been inhabited for 100s of thousands of years by early humans. Burgos has an amazing museum of human evolution, possibly the best museum I have visited in terms of story telling and clarity of the displays.
    I didn’t take heaps of photos, but was really interested in the early human history, and briefly skipped over the progress into human technology.
    The story behind how the limestone caves fill up with debris over long periods of time, therefore preserving history, and how the ancient humans used these caves for trapping animals to kill, was very interesting.
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