The similarity of tools may indicate the sharing of information between the groups.

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...

Two separate cave sites in the Levant now show that Neanderthals and modern humans used the same stone tools, hunted the same ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same ...

Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

Researchers exhumed “hundreds of thousands” of artifacts. Archaeologists have uncovered surprising facts that challenge previously held notions about Neanderthals thanks to a trove of artifacts found ...

Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is leading scientists to believe that Neanderthals were more advanced than ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

Cavemen hunted turtles — but not for food, new research suggests. Scientists say that shells of reptiles caught by children may have been used as ladles or digging devices by early humans over 100,000 ...