Forgotten museum bone fragments and children’s teeth uncover a new glimpse into Neanderthal life. A few minute Neanderthal bone fragments and teeth have opened a window onto the earliest phases of growth in our extinct cousins. New research indicates...

along Portugal’s coast, offering rare insight into ancient human activity. Archaeologists have uncovered a series of Neanderthal footprints on the southwestern shoreline of Portugal, dating to roughly 80,000 years ago. The impressions capture a mixture...

have identified six skeletal fragments recovered from the Abauntz cave in Navarre, Spain, as the remains of a male Neanderthal who lived approximately 46,000 years ago. While these fossils were unearthed during earlier archaeological excavations at the...

New research challenges the theory that climate change caused Neanderthal extinction, revealing their habitats remained stable and widespread. Popular imagination often paints Neanderthals as rugged survivors forged in the unforgiving chill of Ice Age...

millennia. The undisturbed sediment offered a rare, pristine glimpse into the lives of the chamber’s final inhabitants: Neanderthals. An Untouched Snapshot of Prehistory The interior of the chamber was littered with biological evidence that clearly...

unearthed rare 13,000-year-old wooden artifacts in Spain, revealing sophisticated tools and a mysterious club used by Neanderthals. Archaeologists working at the Abric Romaní site near Barcelona have uncovered a rare, perishable cache of Neanderthal...

A Turkish cave reveals new evidence that blurs the line between Neanderthals and modern humans, challenging long‑standing debates. Excavations in a Turkish limestone shelter have uncovered evidence that early modern humans may have carried forward many...

his mother reached out to the museum’s archaeology curator, James Sainsbury. Ben, nine, discovered a 50,000 year old Neanderthal hand axe on Shoreham Beach. Credit: George Carden / BBC Sainsbury, initially expecting the common assortment of mundane...

A mysterious Neanderthal wooden artifact with a unique handle and head leaves experts baffled. Is it a tool, a weapon, or a rare prehistoric status symbol? The archaeological narrative of the Stone Age has long been defined by the materials that...

groups moving over long distances. There is no evidence for large migrations into the central Sahara at that time. No Neanderthal DNA Detected One of the most interesting findings involves Neanderthal ancestry. Most people outside Africa today carry...

Deep in a hidden cave, scientists discovered an ancient structure that suggests Neanderthals may have been far more sophisticated than previously believed. Deep beneath the darkness of Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France, archaeologists uncovered two...

of seemingly mundane bone fragments recovered from a Romanian cave have revealed a sophisticated, albeit overlooked, Neanderthal toolkit. While archaeologists had previously cataloged over 10,000 animal bone pieces at the Abri 122/1200 site in the...

New radiocarbon method pins down the age of Portugal’s Lapedo child, a prehistoric skeleton with both Neanderthal and modern human traits. Since its unearthing in 1998, the Lapedo child’s remains have been a focal point of archaeological debate....

New stone tool evidence suggests Neanderthals inhabited Saudi Arabia 55,000 years ago, but experts are questioning if the findings truly confirm their presence. A new analysis of lithic artifacts discovered in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert suggests that...

A new spatial study of Des-Cubierta Cave in Spain shows that Neanderthals deliberately brought large horned animal skulls deep into a narrow gallery, placing them in the same area again and again. In the mountains north of Madrid, near Pinilla del...

between different human groups than scientists had previously been able to document. For years, discoveries involving Neanderthals and Denisovans have changed the way scientists think about human evolution. Instead of a simple family tree, the picture...

fragment displays a unique blend of characteristics. While the joint surface connecting to the elbow shares features with Neanderthals, the geometry of the bone’s neck and its overall profile align more closely with those of modern humans. Researchers...

paleoanthropologists due to its unique combination of anatomical traits that do not align perfectly with known human or Neanderthal populations. The fossil, which was missing its mandible, was encased in a thick crust of orange-brown calcite, with a...

of DNA associated with archaic human groups. Specifically, he claims the results indicated the specimen was 58.5 percent Neanderthal and Denisovan. These assertions have drawn immediate scrutiny, not only from the scientific community but from within...

Enrico Cappellini explained that while occasional loss of the AMELY gene has been documented in single human and Neanderthal males, an entire population lacking it would be unprecedented. Lee Berger, who oversaw the original digs, told Smithsonian...