The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly 900,000-year-old remains were previously found at the same site, according to the research. Rather ...

the earliest human remains in Western Europe were pieces of jawbone and teeth from Sima del Elefante dating back between 1.1 million to 1.2 million years. Later, 800,000-year-old remains found in ...