An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Archaeologists have discovered a 42,000-year-old yellow ochre stick in Crimea and Ukraine, suggesting Neanderthals possessed artistic capabilities. Th ...

Museum Director Professor Clive Finlayson has been awarded the William King Medal by the University of Galway in Ireland. In his presentation citation, the University’s President, Professor David Burn ...

To determine whether the previously unearthed ocher found at Crimean Neanderthal sites could have been used to create ...

Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

Professor Clive Finlayson has been awarded the William King Medal by the University of Galway in Ireland. In his medal presentation citation, Professor David Burn, President of the University ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

A 42,000-year-old ochre “crayon” found in Ukraine may prove that Neanderthals were artists.

A 45,000-year-old Neanderthal bone found in Crimea shows ancient humans traveled thousands of miles, linking Europe and ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...