{"id":105530,"date":"2025-03-12T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/pink-first-european-in-the-west-over-1-1-million-years-old-discovered-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:05:17","slug":"pink-first-european-in-the-west-over-1-1-million-years-old-discovered-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/pink-first-european-in-the-west-over-1-1-million-years-old-discovered-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pink&#8221;, first European in the West, over 1.1 million years old, discovered in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/12\/0\/0\/1772\/1181\/556\/0\/75\/0\/d1b2ae8_sirius-fs-upload-1-kwlrxnopdgku-1741784743455-original-fossil-ate7-1-of-the-midface-of-a-hominin.jpeg 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/12\/0\/0\/1772\/1181\/600\/0\/75\/0\/d1b2ae8_sirius-fs-upload-1-kwlrxnopdgku-1741784743455-original-fossil-ate7-1-of-the-midface-of-a-hominin.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/12\/0\/0\/1772\/1181\/664\/0\/75\/0\/d1b2ae8_sirius-fs-upload-1-kwlrxnopdgku-1741784743455-original-fossil-ate7-1-of-the-midface-of-a-hominin.jpeg 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/12\/0\/0\/1772\/1181\/700\/0\/75\/0\/d1b2ae8_sirius-fs-upload-1-kwlrxnopdgku-1741784743455-original-fossil-ate7-1-of-the-midface-of-a-hominin.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/12\/0\/0\/1772\/1181\/800\/0\/75\/0\/d1b2ae8_sirius-fs-upload-1-kwlrxnopdgku-1741784743455-original-fossil-ate7-1-of-the-midface-of-a-hominin.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Fossile original (ATE7-1) de la partie m\u00e9diane de la face d\u2019un hominine assign\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0Homo aff. erectus\u00a0\u00bb et retrouv\u00e9 au niveau TE7\u00a0du Gouffre de l\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9phant (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos).&#10;\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/12\/0\/0\/1772\/1181\/664\/0\/75\/0\/d1b2ae8_sirius-fs-upload-1-kwlrxnopdgku-1741784743455-original-fossil-ate7-1-of-the-midface-of-a-hominin.jpeg\" alt=\"Original fossil (ATE7-1) of the middle part of the face of a hominine assigned to \"Homo aff. erectus \u201dand found at the TE7 level of the elephant's abyss (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos).\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Original fossil (ATE7-1) of the middle part of the face of a hominine assigned to &#8220;Homo aff. erectus \u201dand found at the TE7 level of the elephant&#8217;s abyss (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos).  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Maria D. Guill\u00e9n \/ Iphus-Carca.<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">Some paleoanthropologists are used to popularizing their discoveries by increasing a catchy nickname to fossils with a sometimes less immediate charm. This is the case of &#8220;Pink&#8221;, presented on March 12 <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08681-0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nouvelle fen\u00eatre\">In a study in the journal <em>Nature<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>in title<em> &#8220;The oldest human face in Western Europe&#8221;<\/em>. For the Boeotian, however difficult to discern the features. The fossil, more than 1.1 to 1.4 million years old and unearthed near Burgos (Spain), is only made up of a maxillary and a zygomatic bone on the left side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">But these bones have enough signs &#8211; <em>&#8220;A flattened and poorly developed nasal structure&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; so that Rosa Huguet (Rovira I Virgili University, Tarragona) and his colleagues attribute them to a new species with <em>&#8220;Affinities&#8221;<\/em> with <em>Homo erectus<\/em>. Which leads them to propose, temporarily, to assign the Latin name to him: <em>Homo<\/em> aff. <em>erect<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__sub-title\">Tribute to Pink Floyd Groups<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \"><em>&#8220;The nickname Pink is a tribute to the <\/em><em>Pink Floyd group and the album <\/em>Dark Side of the Moon<em>because in Spanish, the lunar face <\/em>[cara oculta]<em> and the face <\/em>[cara]<em>  are translated by the same word &#8220;<\/em>explained Maria Martinon -Torres (Cenieh &#8211; National Center for Research on Human Evolution in, Burgos) during a press conference, adding that the nickname is also an allusion to the first name of the excavation manager, Rosa Huguet, who blushed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 77.69% of this article to read. 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