A Spanish rock shelter preserves rare evidence of Neanderthal woodworking, from spears to possible household objects.

(Paul Hudson/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) We Homo sapiens are pretty damn proud of our tool-making prowess. From smartphones to ...

Once formally proposed as Homo stupidus and portrayed as knuckle-dragging ape-men, Neanderthals are finally receiving their ...

There is even more evidence that Neanderthals were far from the simple cave dwellers we once thought them to be. The ...

Because of its organic composition, wood typically decays over time, making ancient wooden objects an extremely rare find in ...

What you'll discover in this article... ・We call the Stone Age the Stone Age because stone tools tend to be all that is left ...

Most of the wood is firewood, including branches and trunks up to 7.2 meters long. Two spears came from Level R: one is 2.45 ...

Learn how wood imprints and charred remains preserved evidence of Neanderthal spears, bark trays, and other belongings.

Neanderthals might be famous for their use of sophisticated stone tools, but new evidence suggests that they were also ...

Workers cleared a German cave in 1856 and tossed out strange bones. Later studies show why those scraps changed science.

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...