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

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

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

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

If these burials were not isolated acts but part ... Even at sites like Nesher Ramla, where the fossils resemble Neanderthals more than modern humans, the cultural artifacts—especially the ...

“One thing I can say for sure, the skeleton is not a Neanderthal,” said Hershkovitz. So far, the archaeologists have identified five burials at Tinshemet. Still, they expect to find several ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around ... experts believe the body was wrapped in a painted animal skin for burial in the Lagar Velho rock shelter—when found “exhibited a mosaic of ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens ... lifestyles, and burial customs. These interactions fostered cultural exchange, social complexity ...

the researchers have concluded that Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens didn’t just grudgingly share territory – they actively influenced each other’s lives, technologies and even burial customs. The ...

At the time, they described it as a “mosaic” of Neanderthal and early modern human features, a result of interbreeding between the two groups. Radiocarbon dating of animal bones and charcoal initially ...

Ancient DNA indicates the two species interbred for thousands of years, before Neanderthals vanished around ... used to position the body within the burial pit. The rabbit bones, by contrast ...