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

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived ... Homo sapiens a more ...

Spanish researchers have found the remains of a facial fragment in Atapuerca, in northern Spain, which has been identified as the oldest known face ... human mandible dated at about 1.2 million years ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

When a fragment of a skull emerged from a cave in northern Spain, archaeologist Rosa Huguet was almost certain it came from a human ancestor. What she didn’t know at the time of the excavation ...