A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why ...

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered an odd collection of animal bones that may point to evidence of an ancient ...

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While analyzing hundreds of Neanderthal bone fragments from a cave in Belgium, archaeologists discovered a horrifying secret: Six Neanderthals had been cannibalized 45,000 years ago, and the cannibals ...

Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ways, ...

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

Cracked-open and burnt fragments of crab pincers, found in the cave of Figueira Brava. João Zilhão In the 1980s, a Neanderthal cave dwelling was identified on the coast of Portugal, some 20 miles ...

At the end of last month, a team of research scientists announced that walls in three caves in Spain were adorned with art created by our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals about 65,000 years ago.

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 ...

Deep inside a cave in central Spain, Neanderthals repeatedly carried horned and antlered skulls of large herbivores, stripped them of flesh, and arranged them near fires over what appears to be ...