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

Facial bones dated to between 1.4 and 1.1 million years old have been found in a cave in the Atapuerca mountains in Spain. They are the oldest bones of their kind in Western Europe, and ...

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"), ...

The left cheekbone and upper jaw of a partial skull belonging to an extinct human species were discovered at the Sima del Elefante cave near the Atapuerca Mountains in Burgos in 2022, according to ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In a system of caves in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, nearly 50 years of systematic archaeological excavations have unearthed evidence of increasingly ancient human ...

In a system of caves in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, nearly 50 years of systematic archaeological excavations have unearthed evidence of increasingly ancient human occupation. The result of ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we know about the first humans in Western Europe. Researchers have identified a ...

The Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain are home to the Sima de los Huesos, or "Pit of Bones," which has offered one of the ...

Found at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossils make up a partial skull comprised of the left side of the face of an adult hominin. The mineralized bones are the ...

The same cave complex in Spain's Atapuerca Mountains where the new fossil was found also previously yielded other significant clues to the ancient human past. Researchers working in the region ...