Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...
A new study in PNAS reveals that late European Neanderthals descended from a single maternal lineage, indicating a severe ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...
Archaeological evidence of material exchange indicates that Neanderthals also possessed networks. However, relative to the ...
A series of new studies have transformed understanding of Neanderthal life, interactions with Homo sapiens, and human ...
A new study uncovers a subtle but powerful factor that may have tipped the balance between Neanderthals and early humans.
A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ archaeological treasure trove within Wogan Cavern, a massive ...
The story of Neanderthals has long been told in fragments, isolated bones, scattered tools, and DNA strands recovered from distant corners of Eurasia. Now, in a dimly lit cave in southern Poland, ...
The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...
The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...
Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.