Although they do mean different things, in my mind's eye, the words "Neanderthal" and "caveman" summoned identical images: that of savage meat-eating maniacs ripping raw meat from bone with fat ...

Forty-five years later, the La Chapelle discovery was the first Neanderthal specimen found in an original archaeological context and the first to be expertly excavated and carefully studied. Because ...

It’s common to refer to someone exhibiting impolite, antisocial, or ignorant behaviors as a Neanderthal, presumably in reference to a caveman disposition. But this cliché isn’t really accurate.

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...

“That’s how the idea of the slow-witted caveman was born.” Related Stories ・Scientists find DNA evidence that Neanderthals never went extinct ・New fossil and DNA evidence reveals ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...