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.

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

A cutting-edge radiocarbon technique has provided the most precise date yet for the Lapedo Child, a prehistoric skeleton with ...

Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and exchanged more profoundly than previously understood.

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 ...

Did you know that almost everyone outside of Africa has around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes? Video by Pierangelo Pirak. The actor reveals his rituals with his famous father-in-law ...

Edmonds College’s Anthropology Department showcased what students are learning in the field of anthropology during an open ...