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

What she didn’t know at the time of the excavation was that she was coming face to face (pun intended) with the most ancient human visage ... considered to be more primitive.

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 ...

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

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human ... looking face and a prominent nasal bone structure, whereas Pink’s facial features are more primitive, resembling ...

The Gran Dolina hominids exhibited a flat face ... human jawbone, found in level TE9, dated to approximately 1.2 million years ago. The new jawbone, cataloged as ATE9-1, had a number of primitive ...

They are the oldest bones of their kind in Western Europe, and researchers say they belong to a species closer to the more primitive ... are putting a face to the earliest human species to arrive ...

In addition, 'Homo antecessor' had surprisingly modern facial features, with a flat face ... human mandible dated at about 1.2 million years ago," adds the researcher. This fossil exhibited ...