Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the ...

The discovery could deepen our understanding of the Neanderthal mind, but some experts aren’t convinced by the interpretation ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relative; they lived between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, primarily in Europe and ...

N eanderthals managed to survive in Eurasia until around 40,000 years ago, but research indicates their population began ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

While surveying a Neanderthal rock shelter inside a cave in San Lázaro, Spain, archaeologists noticed an unusual stone among ...

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member ...

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at ...

Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...

The print was left on a 43,000-year-old piece of artwork made on a stone by a Neanderthal. It’s a rare instance of a rock not ...