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

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.

(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 ...

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

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 ...

Discovered in 1990 in the Aveyron Gorges near the village of Bruniquel Bruno Kowalczewski discovers a cave which shows evidence of being inhabited by Neanderthals as far back as 47000 years ago ...