In a nutshell Scientists have discovered that Neanderthals not only survived but thrived during one of Earth’s harshest cold ...

A recent study on the geological and stratigraphic context of the L’Enclos site, located in Mainvilliers (in northern France, ...

The Enigmatic Neanderthals Neanderthals are a fascinating subject of study, often depicted as cavemen in ancient tales. But ...

The birch-tar handled tool made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago Traces of ancient "glue" on a stone tool from 50,000 years ago points to complex thinking by Neanderthals, experts say. The glue ...

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 ...

As visitors wander among the fossils, tools and other artefacts in the gallery, two standout characters put a human face to the last phase of our epic evolutionary journey. Staring into the twinkling ...

Tom Higham, an archaeological dating expert at the University of Oxford in the U.K., along with Pinhasi and an international team of colleagues, dated almost 200 Neanderthal bone, charcoal, and tool ...