Two species of humans occupied the same small cave in southern Türkiye across a span of roughly 20,000 years, and the stone tools and shell beads they left behind look strikingly alike. Neanderthals ...

Due to the accelerating pace of AI development, Neanderthal de-extinction may become technically possible within years.

For decades, we were told Neanderthals were primitive, distant relatives—but the truth is far more unsettling. Modern humans ...

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.

It’s often said that Neanderthal noses were perfectly suited for life in cold weather, but this common view may need some fine-tuning thanks to new fossil evidence. Neanderthals — who lived in colder ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists, however, have found it surprisingly hard to piece together gene flow in the opposite direction: how intermingling ...

The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.

An essay posits a direct correlation between the emergence of prehistoric art and the development of fully modern humans, ...

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, ...

After Neanderthals diverged from humans, they spread toward Europe and Asia, taking up residence in caves and leaving behind traces of their lives that have intrigued researchers for years. Centuries ...

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 ...