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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists found new clues about one of the last living Neanderthals. By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth, they discovered a completely new lineage. The DNA indicates recent ...

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 ...