The cave paintings include stencilled impressions of Neanderthal hands, geometric patterns and red circles. They occupy three sites at La Pasiega, Maltravieso and Ardales - situated up to 700km ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley ...

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

The most striking claim is that Neanderthals made art, painting red pigment on cave walls in Spain. But several of these cave art claims remain problematic. The evidence for Neanderthal cave art ...

A study published in Science in 2018 found evidence that some Palaeolithic artwork in Spain was made by Neanderthals, as they dated to a time long before modern humans were in the region. Created ...

Neanderthals crafted sophisticated tools, may have made art, decorated their bodies, buried their dead, and had advanced communication abilities, albeit a more primitive kind of language than ...

75,000-Year-Old Female Neanderthal from Cave Where Species Buried Their Dead ... hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries ...

What would it be like to meet one of our closest human relatives from 75,000 years ago in the flesh? Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

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Neanderthals hunted cave lions with wooden spears and feasted on their meat at least 48,000 years ago, according to a study of ancient bones. The research is the first to show how our prehistoric ...