When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of ...

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

High-altitude mountain passes were not the kind of place to sleep out in the open during the Ice Age, and Neanderthals couldn ...

65,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘tar factory’ found in Gibraltar cave A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Vanguard Cave, ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to hominins who probably lived very close in time to our species’ last common ...

In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

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S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

Neanderthals painted on cave walls in Spain 65,000 years ago – tens of thousands of years before modern humans arrived, say researchers ...