Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

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, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings under the mountain and the last of its lineage,” Slimak told the website ...

Before Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, they occupied Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before modern ...

This has important implications to our understanding of early man. The previous estimations did not mesh ... likely the last common ancestor of both early modern humans and Neanderthals, possessed ...

The new date suggests the weapons may have belonged to Neanderthals, instead of H. heidelbergensis. This theory makes sense to some researchers because, around the same time, Neanderthals were ...

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at ...

The site, dated between 80,000 and 70,000 years ago, confirms that Neanderthals once lived there. Modern humans didn’t arrive in the region until around 45,000 years ago, making this spearpoint ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...