Gran Dolina Boy / Child face

Common name: Gran Dolina Boy / Child face.
Technical name: Fragment Skull frontal bone and upper jaw, Homo antecessor. Code ATD6-69
Dating: 850,000 to 900,000 years.
Site: Level TD6, Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain.
Description: Frontal bone and jawbone fragment belonging to an individual of between 10-12 years of age. The 1994 discovery of several human remains showed that human presence in Europe dated to earlier than previously thought. This species was hitherto unknown, and was called Homo antecessor ‘human explorer’. It presents a mixture of primitive features similar to those of Neanderthals, and modern features, similar to ours, like his face.