Fossilized footprints discovered along Portugal’s southwestern coast date to around 82,000 years ago. The tracks were left by adults and children and provide rare insight into Neanderthal family life, ...

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 ...

For a long time, the Neanderthals were regarded as functional, survival-minded humans who possessed the capabilities of ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

A new study on Neanderthals reveals the startling discovery of a group that lived in complete isolation for 50,000 years, ...

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

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a cave in Indonesia ...

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 ...

The remnants of what may be the world's oldest cooked meal — from 70-thousand years ago — challenge the assumptions Neanderthals consumed only... The oldest leftovers ever discovered belonged to ...

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A groundbreaking discovery of fossils in Morocco is shedding new light on the origins of Homo sapiens. These ancient remains, dated to 773,000 years ago, might offer critical evidence about the early ...