Seventy-five thousand years ago, someone hollowed out a gully by hand in the floor of Shanidar Cave, laid a woman's body in ...

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals living ...

Signs of de-fleshing on bones found in a Belgian cave suggest that one group of Neanderthals cannibalized another.

Remains of one of the "last" Neanderthals have been discovered, with researchers saying that the find casts new light on the history of these archaic humans. The Neanderthal was unearthed at a cave ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite Tens of thousands of years ago, as modern humans migrated into northerly territories ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...