Spanish family as they laid their towels down on the beach in El Hierro called Arenas Blancas, or White Sand in Spanish. He initially thought the uncomfortable lump under his towel was a large shell.Guacimara Gonzalez, whose brother Joel called police after unearthing the bones, told local media: “We were on the beach as a family when Joel felt something bothering him underneath his towel.“He thought it was some kind of shell and began to dig into the sand with his hands.“He dug up a jaw and thinking it was some kind of animal began pulling out other bones, until we realised when we came across the skull that it was human.“There were also remains of charcoal.
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