Neanderthals were intelligent, strong, and skilled early humans. From tool-making to burial rituals, discover 10 fascinating facts about our extinct relatives and their lasting legacy.

More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Neanderthal population, a species that thrived in Eurasia for over 250,000 years, experienced a dramatic decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Recent studies indicate that this ...

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Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

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and evidence of fire use, strongly suggesting Neanderthal presence. Additionally, painted and red pottery shards from the Chalcolithic period (over 5,500 years ago) were found, indicating continued ...

A cutting-edge radiocarbon dating technique has successfully dated a skeleton that combines features of modern humans and Neanderthals from over 27,000 years ago. Dubbed the “Lapedo Child” after its ...

which could have included the animals as an offering and the charcoal as being from a ritual fire. Once the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced roughly a decade after the find, it began the ...