They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Investigations on various sites at Strait of Gibraltar revealed not only the presence of first-ever intercontinental rock art ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

A multidisciplinary team of Spanish scientists has unraveled the secrets of one of the most enigmatic Neanderthal sites in ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...

The findings back up a hypothesis that had been put forward by Beasley’s coauthor John Speth, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, who has for nearly a decade argued that putrid meat and ...