Homo antecessor, the first European, reconstructed from the Atapuerca fossils. Photograph: Juan Herrero/EPA A fossilised jawbone and teeth found in a cave in northern Spain may have belonged to one...

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Recent findings show evidence that humans lived in Europe up to 1.2 million years ago, about 400,000 years more than was previously estimated. The jawbone discovered at the archaeological site of Atapuerca, now part of modern-day Spain, represents...
MADRID, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Scientists in northern Spain have unearthed human remains dating back 1.2 million years, which indicates that people inhabited Europe 400,000 years earlier than first believed, national media said...
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