At the end of the 19th century, the 1,600 workers in charge of digging a trench for a failed mining railway inadvertently discovered a link to our origins. In their enthusiasm for opening the way to progress, they exposed the inveterate legacy of the Sierra, thus paving the way for generations of archaeologists with a similar passion for excavation.
“Atapuerca Explorer”, a web environment that combines 3D virtual recreations of the current appearance of the sites, photo-realistic virtual worlds, a fully interactive map of the Sierra and a chronogram of human evolution, offers for the first time ever a complete, interactive overview of the sites and of the main discoveries found in the Sierra de Atapuerca mountain range.
The following is a list of the sites that can be visited in 3D in real time:
The following sites have been documented by means of photographic virtual reality:
“Atapuerca Explorer” also offers innovative tools for exploring the sites Sima del Elefante, Galería and Gran Dolina in high resolution on demand, which allows viewers to reach a virtual distance of 50 centimetres from the stratigraphy of each site and explore them with scientific precision.
The virtual recreations are complemented by eight galleries of imagenes, many of which have never been published before, which display commented imagenes of the excavation work currently being carried out in the mountain range.
