A recently uncovered archaeological site has yielded a set of "surprising" insights into the lives of Neanderthals during a poorly known period of their history. The latest findings, published in the ...

In 1948, a group of amateurs led by a local headmaster in Lehringen, Germany, uncovered the skeleton of a straight-tusked ...

Across Ice Age Europe, human movement followed narrow corridors shaped by climate, terrain, and time. Along those corridors, two human groups occupied overlapping centuries without clear records of ...

In recent years, there have been numerous studies that compare anatomically modern humans – our direct ancestors – to other ...

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say. Neanderthal remains recently ...