Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

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.

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

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

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.

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 ...

Gravettian culture is largely associated with the use of ochre ... Achieving reliable dates for these sites could help archaeologists understand the full extent of Neanderthal and human movements in ...

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 ...

A primary goal of the research team is to determine the nature of Homo sapiens–Neanderthal relationships in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant. Were they rivals competing for resources ...

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 ...