A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural ...

Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

(Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in the world have been found on the walls of a cave in Central France, researchers said on ...

Or that competition with Neanderthals, present in Europe until around 25,000 years ago, pushed modern humans to express their identity by painting on cave walls—ancient hominin flag-planting.

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

A cave in Israel reveals traces of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens that differs ... Its use, attested in several prehistoric sites, includes body decoration, cave paintings, and ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Neanderthals were making their mark on caves long before modern humans came to Europe. A paper published Monday (August 2) in PNAS confirms that ...

A Neanderthal skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Photo by Graeme Barke) (CN) – What’s the difference between accidentally ...