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                                      Researchers say this jawbone, found in Spain, is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe.
                                                                                      by Lynda Hurst                                                   
                                            A lower jawbone with a haggle of teeth.
That's all there was.
But its discovery in a limestone cave in northern Spain could be the holy grail long sought by anthropologists. 
The fossil is by far the oldest skeletal evidence of a human presence in Europe. Dated at 1.3 million years, the find is not only exceptional in itself, but for the light it will shed on a question that's long been controversial: When did the earliest humans reach Europe?
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 
 
 