Neanderthals, our closest extinct cousins who roamed Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans entered the picture, were more intelligent and resourceful than meets the eye.

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

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While birch tar may have been used by Neanderthals to attach stone tools to wooden handles in some cases, this particular tool probably had a grip made only of tar. Dr Niekus said there was no ...

along with some stone tools made in a way that was not associated with Neanderthals. The evidence suggests that this early group of humans lived at the site for a relatively brief period ...

Our prehistoric cousins used glue to make stone tools 40,000 years ago, a new study suggests. New analysis of Neanderthal tools has revealed the tools were held together by a multi-component ...

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

This 230,000 year old stone tool was made by an early Neanderthal.This handaxe is one of a thousand stone tools found with early Neanderthal remains in excavations at Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire.

Feb. 21, 2024 — Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex ...

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 ...

Researchers don't know how Neanderthals used the string or even whether it had been originally attached to the stone cutting tool. Maybe the tool happened to fall on top of the string, preserving ...