In a nutshell Scientists have discovered that Neanderthals not only survived but thrived during one of Earth’s harshest cold ...

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

Prof Stringer says, 'So far, in my opinion, we don't have representational art from Neanderthal sites. But they did exhibit a degree of symbolism - they made jewellery.' Some of this jewellery was ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Evidence shows that, in western Europe, most raw materials used for stone tools are local and come from sources within 5 km of each site. This suggests that Neanderthals circulated within ...

For answers, we rely on the world's archeologists, who do their best to interpret evidence found at various Neanderthal sites. But it's not easy to give definitive answers to questions about life ...

Blocks of manganese dioxide showing clear signs of usage - including some shaped into crayons - have been found in at least 70 Neanderthal sites. They used charcoal in a similar way and apparently ...

Tom Higham, an archaeological dating expert at the University of Oxford in the U.K., along with Pinhasi and an international team of colleagues, dated almost 200 Neanderthal bone, charcoal, and tool ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...