Humans occupying two caves in northern Israel approximately 60,000 years ago butchered their game in different ways despite living in similar environments and using similar tools, suggesting the ...

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People have been fascinated by Neanderthals ever since we discovered their bones in a German cave in the mid-19th century.

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, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

Two teams using different methods both conclude that humans and Neanderthals had children together starting roughly 50,000 years ago. That both papers reinforce the idea that the ancestors of all ...

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Neanderthals were long stereotyped as primitive and dim-witted, but science has corrected that misconception, showing them as intelligent, cultural and connected to modern humans. This illustrates how ...

Most human genomes harbor small fragments of Neanderthal DNA, the legacy of prehistoric hanky-panky between our ancestors and their hominid cousins. For the most part, that inheritance has been ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on Neanderthal ingenuity. The ancient utensil dates back to the end of the Saalian ...

The child’s remains were discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in central Portugal. The nearly complete skeleton was stained red, and scientists think it may have been wrapped ...