Six bone fragments from Abauntz cave in Navarre belong to a 46,000-year-old male Neanderthal; DNA and radiocarbon dating ...

Six hand bones from a Neanderthal man found at Abauntz Cave in Spain yielded ancient DNA and direct radiocarbon dates.

The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from adults and older children have revealed the distinctive features that set ...

New fossil evidence from a Neanderthal burial site could be an early example of homicide among the species — but anthropologists say there’s more to the story.

Workers cleared a German cave in 1856 and tossed out strange bones. Later studies show why those scraps changed science.

A round hole in the shoulder blade (scapula) of a Neanderthal whose partial remains were unearthed in a cave in Iraqi ...

It could be the earliest known example of “lethal interpersonal violence” with a sharpened wooden spear in the fossil record. The post Study finds 75,000-year-old Neanderthal may be earliest known ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences exploring the complex ...

An oddly circular hole in a Neanderthal's shoulder bone may be the oldest known evidence of an ancient human fatally wounded with a wooden spear. That's according to research published today in ...

A group of 773,000-year-old hominin fossils from Morocco may shed new light on when our species branched off from the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans. A team of anthropologists recently ...

Somewhere between 2% and 19% of the genetic ancestry carried by present-day West African populations traces back to an archaic hominin group that split from the modern human line before Neanderthals ...

Archaeologists have recovered Neanderthal DNA from six hand-bone fragments found in Abauntz Cave, Navarre, in what ...