The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

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 to be ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

Archaeologists have uncovered intriguing similarities between the behavior of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, one of our closest extinct relatives. In a study published in the Journal of Archaeological ...

An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light ...

Along the southwestern coast of Portugal, fossilized footprints preserved in ancient dunes provide a rare glimpse into ...

Researchers exhumed “hundreds of thousands” of artifacts. Archaeologists have uncovered surprising facts that challenge previously held notions about Neanderthals thanks to a trove of artifacts found ...

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Neanderthals have ...