November
16
/ 2022
In the latest string of research and studies shedding light on the incredibly complex history of human evolution, fossils found in Boxgrove, England have been compared to fossils found at Sima de los Huesos (or the ‘Pit of Bones’) in Spain. The Boxgrove fossils, found in the 1990s, include two fossil teeth and part of a lower leg bone, and were dated to 480,000 years ago. Scientists are attempting to ascertain whether Boxgrove humans and other early human fossils at the Atapuerca archaeological site are the same. Dating and Linking La Sima and Boxgrove: By the Skin of the Teeth An ambitious collaboration of British and Spanish archaeologists and scientists have tried to uncover the identity of these humans, publishing
