For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...
As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...
For decades, the Schoningen spears held pride of place as the world's oldest hunting weapons. Eight wooden javelins, pulled ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." DNA study leads researchers to pin humanity’s low pain thresholds on Neanderthals. The team believes that ...
The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...
I visit an unassuming gorge where a wealth of ice age fossils was once found, telling us about Britain’s megafauna – and Neanderthals ...
New genetic findings from 7,000-year-old mummies in Libya are rewriting ancient history. These individuals belong to a unique North African ancestry, previously unknown to scientists. This discovery ...
New York — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430 ...
We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...
Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted ...