The oldest wooden artifacts we have are mostly weapons. They include spears from a German town called Schöningen, a spear tip ...

When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as important to them as stone for working into tools ...

In a Science Advances study published today, scientists report the first comprehensive analysis of wooden Neanderthal tools ...

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

A single piece of wood, carved with a clear handle of about 16 centimeters and a widened, pointed head, lay in a layer of a ...

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 ...

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

More than 40,000 years ago, bands of Neanderthals turned a spacious rock shelter in the mountains of Spain into a cozy home, ...

The traditional Neanderthal stereotype might be that of a club-wielding caveman, but they actually had some pretty sophisticated technology. Our archaic cousins fashioned all manner of delicate ...

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

Nearly 600 wooden remains from Abric Romaní show Neanderthals used wood for spears and shelter structures between 62,000 and 40,000 years ago.

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