Who the first inhabitants of Western Europe were, what their physical characteristics were, and when and where they lived are some of the pending questions in the study of the settlement of Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene epoch. The available paleoanthropological information from Western Europe is limited and confined to the Iberian Peninsula. Now, paleoanthropologists have found the fragments of the hominin midface at the Sima del Elefante site in Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. Dated to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago, the fossil represents the earliest human face of Western Europe identified thus far.
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