The oldest water rat in history has been found at the Sima del Elefante dig, part of Atapuerca in northern Spain, an archaeological site rich in fossils where the remains of the first Europeans were discovered. This rodent lived 1.2 million years ago and is related to a species of rat in the Iberian Peninsula

STAFF | JANUARY 26th, 2011

The archaeological site of the Sima de los Huesos in Spain’s Burgos province has revealed shards from a skull a half million years old.

JULY 27, 2010 | ALICIA RIVERA

Today, the remains of her jaw are being used to shed light on the childhood of Homo antecessor.

Staff | June 15, 2010

In 2006, Germany celebrated the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the first Neanderthal, named after a valley near Düsseldorf. The media joked about the "first German." But, 40,000 years ago, there were no border controls, and Neanderthal fossils have been found in a dozen countries all over Europe and Western Asia.

11 May 2010

Oliver Hochadel, History of Science

The exhibition hall Caixanova in A Estrada (Pontevedra) presents a photographic exhibition until the 21st of February entitled "Archaeology on key gender", produced by the Fundación Atapuerca with the collaboration of the IPHES (Catalan institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution).

4 february 2010