A new exhibit showcasing some of the earliest known human fossils in Europe touches on everything from cannibalism to sophisticated tools to a site known as the "pit of bones." "The First Europeans: ...

NEW YORK — A new exhibit showcasing some of the earliest known human fossils in Europe touches on everything from cannibalism to sophisticated tools to a site known as the “pit of bones.” “The First ...

Homo antecessor is a species that was named as a new species of human in 1997 for fossils excavated in the Gran Dolina cave. It has not been found anywhere else but in the Gran Dolina cave, and ...

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, ...

Geochronologists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study published in the journal Quaternary Geochronology about the chronology of the ...

Archaeologists discovered new evidence of cannibalism among early human ancestors at the Gran Dolina cave site in northern Spain. The remains, belonging to Homo antecessor, an extinct species of early ...

Archaeologists excavating the Gran Dolina cave in Atapuerca, northern Spain, have uncovered the earliest direct evidence of prehistoric human cannibalism ever recorded in Europe. However, the most ...

A study published in Scientific Reports reveals that human groups at Gran Dolina exploited entire herds without depleting the population More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first ...

Archaeologists in Spain found evidence of cannibalism. The discovery was at Gran Dolina cave site. A child's neck bone had butchery marks. This suggests early humans, Homo antecessor, ate children.