We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently ...
In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...
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 ...
FRANKFURT/MAINZ/LEIDEN/MODENA. Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archeological finds discovered ...
NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...
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, ...