Alfons and Adrie Kennis have devoted their lives to creating models of our ancient relatives – sometimes with controversial ...

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 ...

Human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their distinctive ...

At the site of Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar, a small assemblage of mollusks was found, in addition to a few marine mammal bones (monk seal and dolphin) with cut-marks, indicating that Neanderthals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Some chapters of human history are more poignant to ...

For example, in 2015, paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak made a remarkable discovery at Grotte Mandrin, a cave in Rhône Valley, France. He and his team had been working the area since 1998 to find ...