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Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

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 ...

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The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

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 more than one million years ago.

Figure a: A paleogeographic map of South Asia and The Sundaland in Southeast Asia over 20,000 years ago. These lands were occupied by their respective earliest settlers. Figure b: Rising sea level ...

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The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.