Fragments of a million-year-old face found in Spain shed new light on ancient human migrations
- Written by Laura Martín-Francés, Postdoctoral Fellow, PalaeoDiet Research Lab, Monash University
The newly found fossil (right) alongside a mirrored reconstruction (left).Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA / Elena Santos / CENIEHIn a system of caves in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, nearly 50 years of systematic archaeological excavations have unearthed evidence of increasingly ancient human occupation.
The result of this systematic work...





