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780000-year-old prehuman fossils found in Spain
Spanish excavations near Burgos in the Atapuerca region unearthed 36 hominid fossils and primitive tools in Gran Dolina. A new dating method suggests the specimens are at least 200,000 years older than any Western European humanlike remains, implying widespread prehumans in Europe earlier than thought. Experts say the find reshapes early European history.
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Washington
Europe
Spain
Science
Burgos
Atapuerca
Alison Brooks
George Washington University
Smithsonian
Institute of Human Origins
Brooks
Eudald Carbonell
University of Tarragona
F. Clark Howell
University of California, Berkeley