The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

Scientists discovered ancient facial fossils in Spain that may represent a new human species, reshaping early European ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Credit: María D. Guillén / ...