Early man: Probing the chamber of secrets

CAVE MEN did not live in caves. But some died in them and their remains, thus protected from scavengers and the elements, lasted long enough for palaeontologists to discover and examine them. Sometime between 600,000 and 300,000 years ago, quite a few died in La Sima de los Huesos near Burgos, in Spain. The Bone Pit, as the name translates into English, has yielded 6,500 pieces of human skeletons, representing at least 28 individuals.Who those people were is a matter of debate--one that shows th...