Neandertal populations in the Iberian Peninsula were experiencing local extinction and replacement even before Homo sapiens arrived, according to a new study. Neandertal populations in the Iberian ...

Research carried out by a group of archaeologists from the Centre for Prehistoric Archaeological Heritage Studies of the Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (Spain) has contributed to stirring up ...

A study led by a UAB research team of Biological Anthropology has analyzed the genome of 54 newborns with the aim of tracking ...

An EHU study analyzing different genetic markers associated with facial features of the European population has shown a strong link between 10 of these markers and the facial morphology of people from ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula. Discover more about the findings. Travel back a hundred thousand years to ...

The Iberian Peninsula of modern day Spain and Portugal has long held one of human history’s lingering mysteries. Now, two new studies covering nearly 20,000 years have outlined the region’s ...

Back in the Neolithic age, a group of humans we now call the Proto-Indo-Europeans lived to the north of the Black Sea, where they prepared to take over the world. This culture spread over Europe and ...

A study integrates, for the first time, seismic and satellite data to characterize the complex boundary between the Eurasian and African plates in the western Mediterranean, outlining with greater ...

The remains of an Iberian lynx specimen which lived 1.6 million years ago -- the oldest ever discovered -- were found resting in a cave in Barcelona. This discovery not only allows us to shed light on ...

Thomas Pesquet: It is #12Octubre, Spain’s national day, and here’s the whole of the Iberian peninsula in one picture, including Spain and its neighbouring Portugal, from the strait of Gibraltar and ...