Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk — a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago — ...

Why is swapping saliva something all human societies have normalised? Turns out kissing isn't just a human thing — all sorts of species appear to kiss, and new research suggests Neanderthals did it ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have mastered the art of making fire far earlier than previously believed – and they have the scorched evidence to prove it.

A stretch of lowland in eastern England has offered up a discovery that could rewrite a fundamental chapter of our history: about when ancient humans started making fire. A new research published in ...

The findings push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal sites (northern France) dating to ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo sapiens), we now know that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) also engaged in ...