"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

This peaceful German valley is where the first Neanderthal was discovered and identified as a separate species.

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

A newly examined Neanderthal skull, once thought to confirm cold-climate adaptations, has challenged a century-old assumption ...

Belgian cave analysis shows Neanderthal cannibalism involving nonlocal women and children who were killed and eaten 45,000 ...

Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.