We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...

We’ve learned so much about Neanderthals in the past year. We have to be living through some kind of Neanderthal knowledge ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The straight-tusk elephant would have provided Neanderthal hunters with thousands of pounds of meat. In 1948, a group of amateur ...

An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

Neanderthals used advanced hunting techniques to kill prey, a new study says. Prehistoric deer bones show animals were killed with sharp wooden spears. Scientists say the stabs were from below, ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

This is what it might have looked like around 125,000 years ago: a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus).