The limestone cliffs of the Rock of Gibraltar rise sharply from the Mediterranean Sea, containing a network of deep fissures ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to a new genetic analysis.

When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

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A new study on Neanderthals reveals the startling discovery of a group that lived in complete isolation for 50,000 years, shedding new light on their eventual extinction. Some Neanderthal populations ...

FERRARA, ITALY—The reevaluation of 16 flint and radiolarite tools found among bear remains in a cave in the Alps suggests that traveling Neanderthals carried the stone tools with them, according to a ...

Pop culture has not been kind to the Neanderthal. In books, movies and even TV commercials, the species is portrayed as rough and mindless, a brutish type that was rightly supplanted by our Homo ...

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A new study published in the Quaternary journal has revealed a remarkable discovery about the history of rock art. For the first time, archaeologists have identified a unique site around the Strait of ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins continued to make news. By Franz Lidz Neanderthals, who flourished across ...