Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

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Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the ...

PHILADELPHIA — In an unprecedented feat of forensic anthropology, European researchers extracted enough DNA from two Neanderthal skulls to suggest their owners sported red hair and white skin back ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

2026 marks one hundred years since the excavation of the second Neanderthal skull in Gibraltar. In 1926 Dorothy Garrod found the skull belonging to a four-year-old Neanderthal boy, now known as Flint.

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. It’s early January and south-west Britain is painfully ...

A study of dog bones across several Iron Age sites in Bulgaria has shown that people ate dog meat. Cut marks on dozens of ...

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our ...