When we look back tens of thousands of years, it is easy to assume that ancient humans simply vanished under the weight of ...

A new study of stone tools from Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert argues that Neanderthals may have lived there some 55,000 years ago, much farther south than researchers believed. No bones have turned up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...

Long before crock pots and keto hacks, Neanderthals in what’s now Germany were running what scientists call a “fat factory.” And it may have kept them alive. Researchers have uncovered evidence that ...

New research suggests Neanderthals ate rotten flesh and maggots, explaining why the levels of nitrogen-15 found in their remains are so high. Cory Doctorow via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs. Reading time 3 minutes A team’s investigation of ...

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Neanderthals have ...

Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ways, ...

A new Tel Aviv University study challenges assumptions about the Neanderthal pelvis, finding that modern human males evolved a distinct walking mechanism.

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