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

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

Scientists have put a face, but not an official name, to the earliest human ancestor ever found in Western Europe.

(Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA, Elena Santos/CENIEH via AP) This photo provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology ...

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 ...

"This paper introduces a new actor into the study of human evolution in Europe," Rosa Huguet, a paleoanthropologist at the ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

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

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...