The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...
The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.
Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...
For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...
Our Belgian Neanderthal is in his twenties and stands 155cm tall The ... who was part of the Gravettian prehistoric culture of Europe. He is reconstructed from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from ...
Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...
And they take this Neanderthal mixture with them ... And then we came up with this incredible way of living and complex culture. We settled all kinds of distant places, the tiniest islands ...