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

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

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

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

The book debunks the supposed discoveries “proving” that Neanderthals thought like us, made art like us, even went to war ...

"Some Neanderthal populations died out, some got massacred, some interacted [with humans] and some only exchanged ideas." — ...

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 ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern Iberia. Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the ...

Picasso was particularly inspired by various prehistoric elements, as the 2023 exhibition No Past in Art: How Prehistory Inspired Picasso’s Work at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris showed. Gauguin, ...

Compared with the gregarious nature of modern humans, Neanderthal communities appear to have been surprisingly insular, according to past research, keeping to themselves more often than not. One group ...

Paintings, books and eyewitness accounts have ... a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015 could explain why Neanderthals disappeared from the face of Earth 40,000 years ago.

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...