The boy, Ben Witten, brought his find to the museum, where experts concluded it was a Neanderthal hand ax—carved by an extinct group of humans between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. Many similar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.