In a historic moment for paleoanthropology, the sites in the Sierra de Atapuerca have once again become the center of global attention thanks to the new remains of Homo antecessor found in the TD6 ...

One of the issues of the Atapuerca sites that generates the most scientific debate is the dating of the strata where the fossils are found. A study has clarified that the sediment of Gran Dolina, ...

As far as mountains go, the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain aren't much to look at. In many places, they amount simply to scrub-covered, limestone hills rather than towering, craggy heights. If the ...

TARRAGONA, SPAIN—Human tooth marks and cut marks have been found on the bones of small carnivores in El Mirador Cave at Atapuerca. The cave had been used to shelter flocks of sheep and cattle, but ...

Project Area: 1,625 sqm Collaborators: Myriam Vizacaíno Bassi, Javier Encinas Hernández, Alberto López del Río, David Muñoz de la Calle, Luis Antonio Pahíno Rodríguez Engineers: GHESA, A2V Ingenieros ...

Human fossils have been found from the Ethiopian highlands to the Indonesian island of Java. However, the single site with the biggest deposits is located in northern Spain. About 150 miles north of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The <em>Homo antecessor</em>, a hominin species that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula around 800,000 years ago, would have a mechanically more demanding diet than ...

Spanish archaeologists have named the oldest hominid ever found in Europe "Pink" after the legendary English rock band Pink Floyd. Remains of humankind's ancient ancestor, dating back 1.4 million ...

A blade just over one-inch long discovered in the Atapuerca archaeological site in northwestern Spain is the oldest piece of evidence that hominids continually lived in the region. FUNDACIÓN ATAPUERCA ...