A few thousand miles north of where our species took shape, another archaic human group called Eurasia home: Neanderthals. From England to Central Asia, Neanderthals developed their own culture to ...

We often associate the word “caveman” with crude simplicity. But based on a new finding — the first ever evidence of Neanderthals' ability to extract tar from plants — maybe we should, instead, use it ...

Scientists have been volleying the question back and forth for more than a century. Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record roughly 40,000 years ago, have long been ...

For centuries, Neanderthals were often portrayed as primitive, brutish beings. But a new discovery has challenged this long-held stereotype. A Neanderthal glue-making structure has been uncovered ...

Cut into a Gibraltar cliff face overlooking the Alboran Sea, a cave opening leads back in time to one of the earliest manufacturing sites on the planet—a Neanderthal-built tar distillation oven ...

In 1921, he published a story about early modern humans and Neanderthals called “The Grisly Folk.” In it, a group of early modern humans is wandering around. Wells makes it clear that he does ...

A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, indicating that the extinct hominids may have developed a passion for accumulating stuff in the same way that ...

Research led by the Universidad de Burgos has uncovered evidence suggesting Neanderthals engaged in collecting activities based on discoveries at the Prado Vargas Cave in Burgos, Spain.

Recent archaeological findings have revealed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal behavior: their penchant for collecting. Researchers have unearthed a collection of 15 marine fossils, which seem ...

But upon closer inspection, it turned out to be nothing short of the real thing: a rare Neanderthal axe from a significant moment in the hominin’s history, making it the second ever found in Sussex.