The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Fragments of shaped ivory discovered at a Lower Paleolithic site in western Ukraine may be the oldest known ivory tools ever ...

Two women buried 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have no business being genetically mysterious. They lived during ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

An analysis of DNA from Stone Age skeletons buried in Scotland reveals how people organized the burial of their dead. Stone ...