Homo antecessor showed us the oldest face of modern humanity. In 2007, in the Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant), a site ...

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

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

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

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

In 2007, in the Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant), a site no more than 300 metres from the Gran Dolina, the oldest ... face shape. This discovery reveals the existence of a human species ...

This is the third time that Spanish scientists have broken their own world record by finding the oldest human in Western Europe ... with a flat face structure that resembled that of 'Homo sapiens'.

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ...