NewsAnthropologyWestern Europes oldest face adds new wrinkles to human evolutionThe face fossils date to as early as 1.4 million years ago Reassembled upper jaw and cheek fossils found in a Spanish cave come from the oldest known human ancestors in Western Europe. Researchers date this facial find to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago.By Bruce Bower8 seconds agoA Spanish cave has divulged the oldest known fossil remains of human ancestors in Western Europe.Excavations at a site known as Sima del Elefante produced several fossil fragments that, when pieced together, form a partial left upper jaw and cheek bone dated to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years old, say zooarchaeologist Rosa Huguet of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona, Spain, and colleagues.That ancient midface comes from a previously unknown European Homo population, the researchers report March 12 in Nature.