In this video, I explore and clarify the misconceptions surrounding Neanderthals in an easy-to-share format. The first misconception is that Neanderthals were unintelligent cave-dwelling brutes; ...

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 ...

Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.

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

If you’ve been wandering through Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 hoping for a little more unhinged medieval nonsense, your prayers have been answered (by a skull, no less). Warhorse has dropped ...

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.

Mystery surrounds an ancient “scythe” or “blade” discovered at a ceremonial offering site between two human skulls. The dark-green tool is one of almost 800 important artefacts from the ...

(Credit: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Then in 1993, a man walking the beach near Trinidad Head found a partial human skull and turned it over to authorities. DNA testing at that time did not ...

This potential shift in ownership could reshape our understanding of Neanderthal capabilities and their role in the prehistoric landscape. But the new analysis using a different dating technique ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are ...