Researchers examining prehistoric animal bone fragments from a Romanian cave have uncovered the first evidence of Neanderthal bone tool use in the country, revealing a previously undocumented aspect of Middle Paleolithic life in the region.
The findings come from Abri...
Katerina Harvati, one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, will receive this year's Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the World Cultural Council in recognition of her groundbreaking contributions to the study of human origins and evolution.
The award, one...
New archaeological evidence shows that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens displayed strikingly similar behaviors while living in a cave located in what is now Turkey. according to a study published in the journal PNAS. The research was led by İsmail...
A new international study has uncovered rare DNA evidence of a small group of Neanderthals who lived together in what is now Poland around 100,000 years ago.
The research, published in Current Biology, is based on mitochondrial DNA extracted from...
Researchers say a hidden cave at a UK castle in Wales may be one of the most important prehistoric sites ever found in Britain, with evidence of human and animal life stretching back more than 100,000 years.
The site has...
Europe’s Neanderthals may have traced most of their later history to a single ancestral group, according to a new study that points to a major population shift long before the species disappeared. The research suggests Europe’s late Neanderthals across...
Archaeologists have identified a 500,000-year-old hammer made from elephant bone as the oldest tool of its kind ever found in Europe. The rare discovery sheds new light on the technological abilities of early human ancestors in prehistoric southern England.
The...
A set of fossils from the Homo sapiens lineage found near Casablanca, Morocco, and dated to about 773,000 years ago, is giving researchers a rare look at a moment before major human family lines fully split. The remains include...
New archaeological evidence from a site in Suffolk, England, indicates that early Neanderthals made fire around 400,000 years ago, pushing back the known timeline of human-controlled fire-making by nearly 350,000 years.
Researchers uncovered a patch of scorched earth and heat-damaged...
A digital analysis of the only intact Neanderthal inner nose bones ever recorded suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and humidify cold, dry air, researchers reported Monday in the journal Proceedings of the...
