The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

Recent archaeological excavations in Crimea have unearthed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal culture: the crafting and use ...

Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

Edited volume of papers from a conference of the same name held at New York University, Jan. 27-29, 2005. Contents Neanderthals revisited / K. Harvati and T. Harrison -- The distinctiveness and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...