WE ARE not partially descended from Neanderthals, a study of ancient DNA has confirmed. This settles the controversy over whether ancient humans bred with Neanderthals. If they did, it was so rare ...

Momentous encounters -- Neanderthal ancestors -- Neanderthals and their world -- The quiet people -- The ten thousandth grandmother -- Great mobility -- The realm of the Lion Man -- Fat, flints, and ...

NEANDERTHALS and our human ancestors looked broadly similar, lived at the same time and in the same places. Yet evidence continues to grow that the two kept very much to themselves. Two studies have ...

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 ...

Delve into the world of the Cro Magnons, the first modern humans in Europe, and discover how they thrived and contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals. Video: Child mauled to death in Graham ...

We've all believed things about Cro-Magnons, early European humans, that aren't true. For decades, ideas about how they lived, thought, and interacted have been full of mistakes. History and pop ...

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of the timing of ancient populations' movements and interactions. Reading ...