An ancient cave in Russia has yielded a surprising artifact buried for nearly 80,000 years. What looked like a simple bone ...

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.

Ella is a paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist who specializes in studying Neanderthals ... for a time when you would hang out in a cave. So many things that we find absolutely ...

Highlights include Sumaco Volcano, a striking and potentially active volcano with a rare composition, and karst formations, where researchers study climate change through speleothem (cave formation ..

The findings lend support to theories that differences between Neanderthals and early modern humans were a matter of degree rather than kind, challenging long-held assumptions about a cognitive gap ...

including pendants made from cave bear teeth. The pendants closely resemble those made by the last Neanderthals of western Europe who went extinct about 39,000 years ago. Researchers believe this ...

Mezmaiskaya Cave, an area of more than 5,000 square feet, has been excavated since 1987, and the lower layers of sediment date to more than 70,000 years ago, according to a study published April 14 in ...

According to Nemat Hariri, the head of the archaeological team leading the emergency probe, the remains found at the site confirm Neanderthal use of the cave approximately 40,000 to 80,000 years ago. ...