Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

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

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

Is it the case that control of fire by Neanderthals was mastered 350,000 years before the previously believed date? Evidence ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

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

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the earliest known evidence of humans making fire, dating to about 400,000 years ago.

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