Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.

The Neanderthal occupants of a cave in central Spain had a pretty unusual tradition that seems to have been passed down ...

“When you look at adult Neanderthal fossils, particularly the bones of the arms and skull, you see [evidence of] fractures,” says Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at WashingtonUniversity in St ...

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

For instance, the authors note that the skull’s “general morphology is closer to H. erectus than to later encephalized ...

When you think about Neanderthals, “master crafters” probably isn’t the term that comes to mind. But our ancestral cousins are nothing if not surprising – and, according to a new study out ...

First appearing in the archaeological record between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago, the Levallois method is a hallmark of Neanderthal tool making in this period.

It’s a good thing that Neanderthals didn’t have tartar-control toothpaste. What looks to us like unsightly buildup has turned out to be a goldmine for microbiologists who study human evolution.

LONGTAN, CHINA—CNN reports that stone tools synonymous with Neanderthals were discovered at the Longtan site in southwest China's Yunnan Province—but no Neanderthal is thought to have ever ...

The new date suggests the weapons may have belonged to Neanderthals, instead of H. heidelbergensis. This theory makes sense to some researchers because, around the same time, Neanderthals were ...