The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo antecessors', whose remains date back approximately 860,000 years. It is a key ...

In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon"), ...

In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del Elefante cave in Atapuerca, Spain, that have revealed the existence of a population in Western Europe of which we ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known human remains in Western Europe, estimated between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old, in Spain’s Atapuerca region. The fossilized facial bones ...