Located in the Zagros mountains in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Shanidar Cave served as an important place for ...

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

The existence of medieval female warriors through history often attracts heated debate. For one thing, weapons found in ...

At school, we were all told about the glacier that sometimes came to the territory of Belarus, sometimes went away. The ...

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

Now researchers can identify subtler changes over just hundreds of years, providing clues as to how people migrated and ...

The surprise discovery that ancient human DNA can survive in sediments and soil is revolutionising the study of Paleolithic ...

New insights were made on early human relatives, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, and their interactions with modern humans, as well as clues to interactions between hominins over one ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Archaeologists from the University of Burgos discovered 15 marine fossils in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, suggesting that Neanderthals may have been capable of abstract thought long ...