Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

A fragmentary bone from a Spanish cave is the oldest human face ever found in western Europe. The bones are part of the cheek and upper jaw, and are between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old.

At first, it was just a cluster of bone plates peeking from the shallow Siberian soil. In the summer of 2004, during a modest ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that ... who led the study entitled “The earliest human face of Western Europe.” “When we have more fossil remains ...

On the right, detail of the cut mark. “Homo antecessor shares with Homo sapiens a more modern-looking face and a prominent nasal bone structure, whereas Pink’s facial features are more ...

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 ...