This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

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

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

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago. Researchers ...

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

The new findings suggest that Manot Cave’s deepest chamber was likely a gathering space for rituals that enhanced social ...

The Neanderthal Legacy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Mellars, P. The impossible coincidence: A single-species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe.

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

Scientists have been volleying the question back and forth for more than a century. Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record roughly 40,000 years ago, have long been ...