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 1.

An international team of archaeologists, led by Spanish experts from the University of Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, has discovered the oldest human remains in Western Europe, Azernews reports.

Archaeologists discover oldest known human face fossil in western Europe - Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for the first time in 1994,

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo antecessors', whose remains date back approximately 860,000 years. It is a key piece in understanding the evolution of humans on the continent.