A Spanish cave has divulged the oldest known fossil remains of human ancestors in Western Europe.
Excavations at a site known as Sima del Elefante produced several fossil fragments that, when pieced together, form a partial left upper jaw and cheek bone dated to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years old, say zooarchaeologist Rosa Huguet of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona, Spain, and colleagues.
That ancient midface comes from a previously unknown European Homo population, the researchers report March 12 in Nature.
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