Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar. Just a few decades ago, most people pictured these ancient humans as brutish ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than ... up some unusual-looking bones. Subsequent study ...

An international team has unearthed the oldest spear tip ever found in Europe and notes that it was fashioned by Neanderthals ...

Research has determined Neanderthals at least had the bone structure consistent with the ability to hear at frequencies that made listening to speaking voices possible. But while they could have ...

Collagen obtained directly from at least a dozen Neanderthal bones from sites in France, Belgium, and Croatia reveal that Neanderthals were top-level carnivores who obtained most of their dietary ...

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 ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our ... a few teeth and part of a finger bone found in caves in Siberia and ...

The guy behind the facades is Ron Perlman whose self-professed Neanderthal bone structure and leading-man blue eyes have made him a household face. Perlman, 64, has racked up more than 200 credits ...

Human faces stop growing in adolescence, unlike Neanderthals, who keep developing bold bone structure. From rice to rags: Why Pakistan’s people stay dirt poor despite billions in exports ...

An international team of scientists has found a bone spear tip dating back between 80,000 and 70,000 years in the Mezmaiskaya cave, in the North Caucasus (Russia). What’s extraordinary about the ...