Archaeologists in Spain have made an unexpected discovery. The oldest human remains have been found in the Gran Dolina mountain range. Archaeologists from Spain have discovered the bones of some of the oldest archaic humans in Europe, who lived in the Sierra de Atapuerca mountain range, Gran Dolina, 850 thousand years ago, according to a press release from the Catalan University of Human Paleoecology and Social Revolution.
“After thirty years of excavating a small test site that yielded the first remains of this human species, as well as thousands of species of fossils and animal remains, the research team responsible for excavating the Gran Dolina site has managed to penetrate deeper into the surface of block TD6,” the publication says.
Mariana-Rusanovschi. Archaeologists working at the excavation site
The researchers specified that among the fragments of skull bones, ribs and vertebrae there was also a tooth of particular interest. It is assumed that it belonged to a 25-year-old woman whose remains were previously found in this region.
In the 1990s, the remains of six people were also found in the caves of Gran Dolina, mixed with animal bones and stone tools dating back 780,000 years. They were attributed to the fossil species Homo antecessor, or early man. This is the oldest representative of our genus in Europe.
