The fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.

The object was found at Coto Correa in Las Chapas, a site that has been known since the 1950s, when archaeologists first found stone tools there dating to the early Paleolithic period. Recently, a ...

Bones from the hominin, dubbed “Pink” after the rock band Pink Floyd, significantly predate those of a species previously ...

The markings and coin combined to indicate that these people used the cave as a sanctuary, though their meanings were unknown. The Cova de les Dones was Catalan Spanish for "women's cave," and the ...

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 ...

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Facial bones dated to between 1.4 and 1.1 million years old have been found in a cave in the Atapuerca mountains in Spain. They are the oldest bones of their kind in Western Europe, and ...

A fragmentary bone from a Spanish cave is the oldest human face ever found in western Europe. The bones are part of the cheek and upper jaw, and are between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old.

Today, the only Southern Jê people are the Kaingang and Laklãnõ. Around 1 CE, the first burial caves were used. According to de Lima, the human remains were not buried but likely placed within ...