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 ...

Researchers immediately noticed that the young skeleton had traits belonging to modern humans and to Neanderthals, suggesting these two groups once had children together. Recent testing shows the ...

It’s a good thing that Neanderthals didn’t have tartar-control toothpaste. What looks to us like unsightly buildup has turned out to be a goldmine for microbiologists who study human evolution.

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 ...

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Nikolai Vilkov, 29, was arrested on May 5 after the Martin County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies had to use smaller boats to pin the stolen 68-foot, two-million-dollar yacht against the ...

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 ...

The article called the earlier age attributed to the wooden weapons an “outlier,” because, if correct, it would show that Homo heidelbergensis, likely the last common ancestor of both early modern ...

New research, however, suggests that the Schöningen spears are actually much younger than previously thought, likely dating back 200,000 years, and were in fact made by Neanderthals. The Schöningen ...

Archaeologists discovered a bone spearhead approximately 80,000 years old, identified as the oldest bone spearhead in Europe crafted by Neanderthals, in a cave in the North Caucasus. The findings ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are ...

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