One of the earliest manufacturing sites on the planet is a "tar factory" built by Neanderthals in a cave in […] ...

One such discovery was a cave chamber full of ancient hearths and stone tools dating to the time of Neanderthals, uncovered in 2021 by Clive Finlayson, an evolutionary biologist and director of ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, according to two new studies.

The culture’s name is taken from Le Moustier, a famous archaeological site in Dordogne, southwest France where a whole Neanderthal skeleton was found in 1908. A 60,000 year-old Mousterian tool site in ...

More archeological excavation is needed to clarify exactly what this pit was used for. “Roman society was full of ...

The surprise discovery that ancient human DNA can survive in sediments and soil is revolutionising the study of Paleolithic ...

Circumstantial evidence of Neanderthal clothing includes a stone tool with residue from hide scraping, pointed bone awls used to punch holes in hides, and a twisted bit of cord, possibly from shoes or ...

Around 900,000 years ago stone tech 2.0 was released into Spain. University of Santiago de Compostela anthropologist Diego Lombao and colleagues found the earliest known European example of advanced ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe. Like any good research, these genomes lead to more ...

Around forty thousand years ago, Neanderthals went extinct as a species. Initially, experts believed it was because humans were smarter and equipped with better tools and weapons for survival. However ...