Wooden objects usually decompose quickly, but periodic flooding and minerals in the water helped preserve those at a site ...

By Will Dunham Oct 15 (Reuters) - The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of ...

Artistic illustration of Neanderthals returning from a hunt. Credit: Hugo Prades/IPHES-CERCA. At a prehistoric rock shelter ...

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.

What is particularly remarkable is that we see evidence of two contrasting facets of human nature—care and ...

Once formally proposed as Homo stupidus and portrayed as knuckle-dragging ape-men, Neanderthals are finally receiving their ...

A likely fatal spear wound hints at violence, while healed facial injuries suggest this Neanderthal had help surviving ...

The ventral (left) and dorsal (right) views of the Shanidar A scapula with the hole through it. Ventral is the front of the ...

A rare discovery reveals that 75,000 years ago, a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave in Iraq died a grisly death, likely from a ...

There is even more evidence that Neanderthals were far from the simple cave dwellers we once thought them to be. The ...

Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and ...

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, ...