Two separate cave sites in the Levant now show that Neanderthals and modern humans used the same stone tools, hunted the same large game, and selected the same raw materials across a span exceeding 20 ...

The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.

Recent archaeological excavations in Crimea have unearthed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal culture: the crafting and use of ochre crayons dating back approximately 130,000 years. This discovery ...

Learn about the crayon-like tools made by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic and how these objects likely prove the existence of a complex Neanderthal culture. Humans have used color to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now a new cave excavation points to an even closer relationship between these groups, which appears to have lasted for many ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought. Karen Carr 1n 1856, laborers working in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA argues that at least some Neanderthals and ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent study. The pair of artifacts, unearthed from layers 47,000 and 46,000 years ...

As we live through an era of rapid expansion in our understanding of our distant ancestors, the Neanderthals, we’re learning they may not have been so distant after all. According to a new study ...

Sixty thousand years ago, two groups of Neanderthals lived just a stone’s throw apart in what’s now northern Israel. But they had very different cultures when it came to food, according to a recent ...

(CNN) — Ancient DNA revealed that our species, Homo sapiens, once interbred with Neanderthals, but what was the nature of those Stone Age encounters tens of thousands of years ago? Discoveries ...