Possibly Homo erectus, one of the first species to walk upright ... It tells us that long before the first painting on a cave ...

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

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found ...

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

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

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

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

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

including what happened to the early Homo sapiens at nearby sites (including the famous site of Qazfeh), the timing of the first encounters between the Nesher Ramla humans and Homo sapiens ...

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.