A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of ...

A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

A team’s investigation of ancient human burials in Israel’s Tinshemet Cave has revealed evidence that Homo sapiens and our nearest cousins, the Neanderthals, intermingled in ancient times ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

Paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès created the sculpture. Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), are the human species that has attracted the most attention as our closest evolutionary relatives.

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at the Mandrin Cave suggest as much.

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

The CENIEH is leading a comparative study that documents mixed patterns of tooth enamel in two fossil populations from the ...