On the sheer limestone face of the Rock of Gibraltar, a hidden chamber has been sealed off from the outside world for roughly 40,000 years. When archaeologists finally broke through the sand and rock ...

When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of stone tools in Caverna Generosa, a cave sitting 1,450 meters up in the ...

For decades, the Schoningen spears held pride of place as the world's oldest hunting weapons. Eight wooden javelins, pulled ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

While analyzing hundreds of Neanderthal bone fragments from a cave in Belgium, archaeologists discovered a horrifying secret: Six Neanderthals had been cannibalized 45,000 years ago, and the cannibals ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal fire pit in southeastern England has revealed that fire was made by humans at least 400,000 years ago. Previously, it was thought that humans had begun to make fire only ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...