This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Yet there were nuances. Neanderthals preferred burials deep in caves. And they often laid their dead in a variety of ...

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

Finding a number of the sites date earlier than other Neanderthal burials in Europe and Homo sapiens burials in Africa, the ...

Archaeologists in the Czech town have discovered a rare site dating back to the Middle Paleolithic period around 126,000 ...

Excavations at Shanidar in the 1950s and 60s unearthed partial remains of 10 Neanderthal men, women and children. During these earlier excavations, archaeologists found that some of the burials ...

Why did Neanderthals and humans bury their dead? 12,000-year-old burial may belong to a female ‘shaman’ 12,000-year-old burial may belong to a female ‘shaman’ ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

is a rarity among Neanderthal fossil records. It is among a small group of skeletal remains almost definitively (though still controversially) laid to rest in intentional burials. Shanidar 3 ...