More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

While Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ... diverse Mediterranean ecosystem instead of the expected barren Ice Age landscape. Different units had varying excavation areas (27 square ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages ... and Middle Stone Age, eds. E. Hovers & S.

A team of archaeologists has discovered some evidence of Neanderthal habitation during their recent survey conducted in ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

were beneficial to humans as they lived through the last ice age, when temperatures were much cooler, and they continue to confer benefits today." This updated timeline for Neanderthal-modern ...

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the ... a mixture of both human and Neanderthal features suggesting a “hybrid” between the two evolutionary ...

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and human traits. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.