Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

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 ...

erectus found in level the TE7 of Sima del Elefante site ... From there, the team identified that the facial bones did not belong to Homo antecessor, an early human species previously identified at ...

A team of researchers has identified a human facial fragment dated between 1.1 and 1. ... The analyses conducted have led researchers to attribute this fossil to the species Homo affinis erectus, a ...

This archaic human had been thought to be the earliest ... projecting forward face … which makes it similar to other Homo erectus (specimens),” she added. The team also reanalyzed a partial ...

and displayed some similarities to - but also differences with - Homo erectus, thought to be the first human species to have migrated out of Africa. The researchers said the fossils were not complete ...

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

In the nearly 2 million years that they were roaming this planet, Homo erectus laid the groundwork for all other human species that came after it, they were the first to travel continents ...