Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

Carving represents only the second figurative animal depiction from this period found in the region, indicating early ...

A robot hand learns human behavior through experience and adaptive algorithms.

In 2018, researchers from the University of Southampton analyzed hand silhouettes painted on the wall of the Maltravieso cave ...

Manot Cave, first unearthed by accident in 2008 during condominium construction near the Israel-Lebanon border, has been a ...

Around 900,000 years ago stone tech 2.0 was released into Spain. University of Santiago de Compostela anthropologist Diego ...

A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before any ...

The “cosmic turtle”, which holds countries, or even the entire world on its back, appears in creation myths across the globe ...

Feb. 21, 2024 — Neanderthals created stone tools held ... Since language is not required for this behavior, similar kinds of playful teasing might be present in non-human animals.

While Neanderthals have been found to create glue ... “caves have been giving us a great deal of information about the behavior of these people.” That remains true today with the discovery ...

The findings indicate that Neanderthals exuded an “artistic ... linguistic abilities including practicing and symbolic behavior. It also suggests that Neanderthals displayed a deep appreciation ...