Like a treasure hunter with an oddity from some distant land, Adrie Kennis squints curiously at his model of an ancient woman ...

Art was previously thought to be a behaviour unique to our species (Homo sapiens) and far beyond our evolutionary cousins. The cave paintings include stencilled impressions of Neanderthal hands ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, argues that a 130,000-year-old bear bone with Neanderthal ...

The Neanderthal is also shown with body decoration, as evidence suggests this artistic behaviour was not unique to modern humans. In fact, body painting may have been the earliest form of art - ochre ...

But a new study published in the journal PNAS supports the view that the red ochre pigments discovered in three caves in the Iberian Peninsula are a form of Neanderthal cave art. It states that ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding ...

Archaeological evidence shows that some Neanderthals looked after their sick and buried their dead, which suggests they were social and even compassionate beings. Prof Stringer says, 'So far, in my ...

The art on the chamber’s ceiling—a deer ... the continent’s long-term residents began to die out. The Neanderthals had emerged in Eurasia some 200,000 years earlier. Very little evidence ...

Neanderthals and Humans Lived Side by Side ... should seek answers hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries about human ...

These abilities include the extensive use of symbols, both verbally, as fully developed syntactical language, and visually, as art and personal ... populations of Neanderthals, and are associated ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...