Scientists excavating in the Atapuerca Sierra site in the northern Spanish province of Burgos discovered the oldest European human fossil which turned out to be a million-year-old human tooth. The finding confirmed the mankind's presence in Europe started over more than 1 million years ago.
The fossil, which was the remains of an ancestor of Homo antecessor and gives a new perspective to human history, was found in the entry to Sima del Elefante, a pleistocene deposit that was the last to be systematically excavated in Atapuerca.
Source: Xinhua
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