Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

Ben and his mother decided to email photos of the “shiny flint rock” from the beach to the curator of archaeology at the museum — who informed them that it was actually a Neanderthal hand ax.

So later, he brought his find to the museum and had experts examine it. They concluded that it was a Neanderthal hand ax that dates back to the Late Middle Paleolithic era between 40,000 and ...

Because many Neanderthal fossils and artefacts have been found in caves ... AquilaGib (Stewart Finlayson, Gibraltar Museum) licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons The typical image of ...

2011). The question of what may have happened during these encounters and what the role of the early modern humans could have been in the Neanderthal extinction, have been the subject of intense ...

"Neanderthal dietary habits ... Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University Press, 2005. Stiner, M. C. "Middle Paleolithic subsistence ecology in the Mediterranean region," in ...

Close your eyes and picture a Neanderthal. You're probably imagining ... skulls and associated jawbones housed in the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.