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 ...

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

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 ...

Learn more about Homo affinis erectus, Western Europe’s oldest human ancestor.

The partial midface of a hominin fossil has been found in the Sima del Elefante cave site near Burgos, northern Spain, and dates to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago. Its discovery ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

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

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...