This evidence of “earlier collectors” was found in the Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain. This find reveals that Neanderthals ... such as the worship of a “bear cult.” ...

For a time, archaeologists thought Neanderthals worshiped the bears, or even shared caves with them. The idea was popularized by Jean Auel's 1980 novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, but has since ...

A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain ... religious practices including the ...

Drawing on Solecki’s research, writer Jean Auel mixed fiction and archaeology in her novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, a 1980 bestseller that humanized, if not glamorized, Neanderthals.

For instance, it has been observed that Levallois points often bear impact scars ... On the new dates for Gorham's Cave and the late survival of Iberian Neanderthals. Before Farming, 2006/3 ...

But it wasn’t from a Neanderthal either ... that Max Planck paleoanthropologist Bence Viola mistook it for a cave bear tooth. Only when its DNA was tested was it confirmed to be human ...

(Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in the world have been found on the walls of a cave in Central France, researchers said on ...

A Neanderthal skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Photo by Graeme Barke) (CN) – What’s the difference between accidentally ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern ...

Recent discoveries at Tinshemet Cave in central Israel are helping ... including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel. They were shaping one another's ...

A cave in Israel reveals traces of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens that differs significantly from what was previously imagined. The discoveries suggest advanced cultural and ...