In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

They were living on a rocky cliff top on the outer reaches of Neanderthals’ known range, which extended from the Atlantic regions of Europe to central Asia. The social organization of ...

“By including fossils from a wide geographical and temporal range, we were able to capture a comprehensive picture of Neanderthal evolution,” explained study co-author Mercedes Conde-Valverde ...

Why did Neanderthals collect these fossils? It’s a puzzling question that scientists are still trying to answer. The study proposes a range of reasons, from simple decoration to economic motives ...

In addition, fossil evidence indicates that Neanderthals suffered from a wide range of ailments, including pneumonia and malnourishment. Still, they persevered, in some cases living to the ripe ...

That points to Neanderthals not harvesting crabs with nets, which would have caught a wider range of animals. Instead, they seem to have treated the tide pools as a Paleolithic version of the ...

sapiens and — contrary to the brutish stereotype — Neanderthals made complex weapons, buried their dead and used a range of resources, from medicinal plants to feathers from birds of prey. They were ...

Archaeologists in Germany have identified a set of wooden spears that might be younger than previous estimates. This shift in timing raises questions about which early group, potentially Neanderthals, ...

Ultimately, the very nature of radiometric dating will never give us a firm date for the extinction of Neanderthals but only a range of probability. Shaping skullsFossils used to develop a model ...

The largest ever genome study of South Asian people has discovered a wide range of Neanderthal DNA sequences in modern Indian people. The findings raise the possibility of building a full ...