Unfortunately, wood decays much faster than stone, leaving archaeologists with very little direct evidence of how prehistoric ...
Traces of nearly 600 wooden items have been recovered at a Neanderthal site in Spain, suggesting this extinct hominin was as ...
The bones were discovered at two caves in the 1990s, but scientists recently revisited them to take a closer look at the cut marks. Anaëlle Jallon Neanderthals living at caves less than 45 miles apart ...
Along a stretch of the Trema River in Cornejo, northern Spain, children and adults gather to sort through dirt from a cave. This year, about 50 volunteers washed and sieved roughly half a metric ton ...
The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of macronutrients—protein, carbohydrates, and fat. While hunting big-game animals—like deer, ...
In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...