Researchers claim to have uncovered the "oldest face in Western Europe" after excavating fragments of a skull at the Sima del ...

What we do know at the moment is that it resembles 'Homo erectus' and that it is clearly different from the species we have ...

antecessor to Western Europe. Archaeological excavation work ... whereas Pink’s facial features are more primitive, resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal ...

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

Homo erectus arose around 2 million years ago and moved from Africa to regions of Asia and Europe, with the last individuals dying out around 100,000 years ago, said Potts. It can be challenging ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

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.

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

The discovery suggests that early humans settled in Europe, traveling from the east ... Original fossil of the midface of a hominin assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered at level TE7 of the ...

Paris (AFP) – Western Europe has a new oldest face ... This means it bears some similarities to the face of Homo erectus -- but not enough that the scientists could confirm that Pink was ...

In view of these features, the Atapuerca team has decided to classify Pink as "Homo affinis erectus" (abbreviated ... had not been documented in Europe. The European Pleistocene family photo ...