The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

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

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

The skull was placed on a plaster base in a wood ... this makes it the oldest unambiguous site documenting prehistoric human activity in the Indian subcontinent. The stone tools were likely ...

Paranthropus robustus are a prehistoric human group who lived in South Africa about two million ... Up until now, most of the fossils found from this group are skulls and teeth. These fossils have ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Further analysis revealed that the prehistoric “Lapedo Child ... much shorter than those of a modern human, and more resembled a Neanderthal. The skull, however, almost fully mirrored a ...

Archaeologists excavate near the cave at the Sima del Elefante site, near Burgos in northern Spain, where the fossilized skull fragments were found. - Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA ...