While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

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 ...

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 ...

His coffin, made of wood enclosed in a lead coffin covered with purple velvet, lay in state in the Painted Chamber within the Palace of Westminster before burial in the Abbey on 14th February in a ...

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 ...

Neanderthals in St. Michael’s Cave in Gibraltar. What is the difference between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals? Credit: Yulia S / CC-BY-3.0 / Wikimedia Commons In 1868, near the French village of Les ...

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 ...