Editing Iberian Peninsula (section)

===Palaeolithic===
The Iberian Peninsula has been inhabited by members of the ''[[Homo]]'' genus for at least 1.2&nbsp;million years as remains found in the sites in the [[Atapuerca Mountains]] demonstrate. Among these sites is the cave of [[Gran Dolina]], where six [[hominini|hominin]] skeletons, dated between 780,000 and one million years ago, were found in 1994. Experts have debated whether these skeletons belong to the species ''[[Homo erectus]]'', ''[[Homo heidelbergensis]]'', or a new species called ''[[Homo antecessor]]''.

Around 200,000 [[Before Present|BP]], during the [[Lower Paleolithic]] period, Neanderthals first entered the Iberian Peninsula. Around 70,000 BP, during the [[Middle Paleolithic]] period, the last glacial event began and the Neanderthal [[Mousterian]] culture was established. Around 37,000 BP, during the [[Upper Paleolithic]], the Neanderthal [[Châtelperronian]] cultural period began. Emanating from [[Southern France]], this culture extended into the north of the peninsula. It continued to exist until around 30,000 BP, when Neanderthal man faced extinction.

About 40,000 years ago, [[anatomically modern humans]] entered the Iberian Peninsula from across the Pyrenees. On the Iberian Peninsula, modern humans developed a series of different cultures, such as the [[Aurignacian]], [[Gravettian]], [[Solutrean]] and [[Magdalenian]] cultures, some of them characterized by the complex forms of the [[art of the Upper Paleolithic]].