Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

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.

(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 ...

In the United States, the Archaeology News Network highlighted the compelling evidence of Neanderthal habitation within the cave. Meanwhile, Greek media, particularly Creta Post, focused on the ...

A skull found at Manot Cave showed evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthal and homo sapiens, with characteristics of ... stood out for displaying key 'geometric signs suggesting a unique ...

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 ...

Genetic studies have also transformed our understanding, especially those from Denisova Cave in Central ... classifications. Some characteristics link them to Neanderthals, while others suggest ...

Discovered in 1990 in the Aveyron Gorges near the village of Bruniquel Bruno Kowalczewski discovers a cave which shows evidence of being inhabited by Neanderthals as far back as 47000 years ago ...