In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging ...

Maba 1] is well-known for the Neanderthal-like face, while its neurocranium shows affinities with many hominin taxa, which ...

A newly-unearthed Neanderthal skull has revealed how our ancient cousins could have been around for thousands of years longer than we think, said experts. The skull fragments were discovered at a ...

The child's survival to age 6 may be due to altruism within the community. Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and ...

Image: BBC Studios/Jamie Simonds A team of researchers used a flattened skull of a female Neanderthal who lived some 75,000 years ago to reconstruct the woman’s likeness, providing an uncannily ...

Named Shanidar Z after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where her skull was found in 2018, the latest discovery has led experts to probe the mystery of the forty-something Neanderthal woman laid to ...

The rare discovery of the Neanderthal skull came from an Iraqi cave where the species was known to lay their dead to rest. The site could indicate how Neanderthals may have been more caring and ...

One of the highlight specimens in our Human Evolution gallery is the fossil skull known as Gibraltar 1. It is the first adult Neanderthal skull ever discovered. Model-maker Jez Gibson-Harris and ...

Baquedano said signs of symbolic behavior had been found before on Neanderthal sites, notably a collection of sheep and goat skulls at a cave in Italy and two mysterious stone circles made from ...

Named Shanidar Z after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where her skull was found in 2018, the latest discovery has led experts to probe the mystery of the forty-something Neanderthal woman laid to ...

A data set comprising of 13 Neanderthals, 233 prehistoric Homo sapiens, and 83 modern humans was built by the team from the available literature. They focused on standard skull measurements as a ...

Particularly given that her skull was smashed into 200 pieces, possibly by a rockfall, before scientists meticulously pieced it together over the last six years. This is Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal ...