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

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

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 ...

4. Modern humans and Neanderthals buried their dead differently. By looking at burials in Western Asia over a span of 85,000 years — when modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped ...

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 ...

The interesting piece on potential sequencing of the Neanderthal genome and subsequent ... likely had a complex social organization that included burial rituals, religious beliefs, and evident ...

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 ...