In a significant step forward in understanding ancient human history, scientists have confirmed that a child buried around 28 ...

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

Some believed that waves of technologically superior hunter-gatherers had spelled the doom of their heavy-foreheaded cousins, ...

Paleoanthropologists generally agree that Neanderthals lived in groups of 10 to 15, counting children. That assessment is based on a few lines of evidence, including the limited remains at burial ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that confirms what many anthropologists have long suspected: interbreeding between ...

The Lapedo Child was a four-year-old who was discovered in Portugal in 1998 who showed genetic traits from both Neanderthals ...

“From the early Homo sapiens and Neanderthal periods we have evidence that children had personhood,” she says in an email. “The earliest documented burials in Africa… involve children and ...

Scientists confirm the first known Neanderthal-human hybrid child, buried 28,000 years ago. DNA and rituals reveal two ...

A collapsed wall in a 15th-century Portuguese church revealed at least 12 skeletons, sparking archaeological investigations ...

Paleontologist Qiaomei Fu and his colleagues have described in detail the results of the analysis of 127 human genomes from ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...