Schöningen, Germany Homo heidelbergensis

beginning in 1992, spanish team has located more 5,500 human bones dated age of @ least 350,000 years in sima de los huesos site in sierra de atapuerca in northern spain. pit contains fossils of perhaps 32 individuals remains of ursus deningeri , other carnivores , biface nicknamed excalibur. hypothesized acheulean axe made of red quartzite kind of ritual offering funeral. if so, oldest evidence of known of funerary practices. ninety percent of known h. heidelbergensis remains have been obtained site. fossil pit bones include:

a complete cranium (skull 5), nicknamed miguelón, , fragments of other crania, such skull 4, nicknamed agamemnón , skull 6, nicknamed rui (from el cid, local hero).
a complete pelvis (pelvis 1), nicknamed elvis, in remembrance of elvis presley.
mandibles, teeth, , many postcranial bones (femurs, hand , foot bones, vertebrae, ribs, etc.)

nearby sites contain known , controversial homo antecessor fossils.

there current debate among scholars whether remains @ sima de los huesos of h. heidelbergensis or h. neanderthalensis. in 2015, study of mitochondrial dna samples 3 caves sima de los huesos revealed distantly related mitochondrial dna of denisovans rather of neanderthals.

in 2016 nuclear dna analysis determined sima hominins neanderthals , not denisova hominins , divergence between neanderthals , denisovans predates 430,000 years ago.

suffolk, england
in 2005 flint tools , teeth water vole mimomys savini, key dating species, found in cliffs @ pakefield near lowestoft in suffolk. suggests hominins can dated in england 700,000 years ago, potentially cross between h. antecessor , h. heidelbergensis.