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 ...

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

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

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

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of ...

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