The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in ... In a study published Nov. 13 in the European Journal of Archaeology, Thompson and colleagues wrote that ...

found that the Neanderthal DNA only makes up around 1% to 2% of the total of any modern European human. The effect on the shape of the skull is “too small to be seen with the naked eye ...

A study published in Scientific Reports has revealed that European tribes, called the Magdalenians, practiced cranial cannibalism 18,000 years ago. This gruesome tradition involved eating the brains ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

"Part of the skull of the Piltdown man ... It had a small brain, yet a human-like jaw. But mostly, it came from Africa, and many European scientists preferred to have England be the cradle ...

Announcing the discovery Nov. 8, the Uruma City Board of Education said the fragments excavated at the Yabuchi cave had been confirmed to be those from a human skull rather than stone. An analysis ...