Neanderthals may not have sported the barrel-chested bodies and hunched posture we see in museums and textbooks, according to a new study. Neanderthals may not have sported the barrel-chested bodies ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought. Karen Carr 1n 1856, laborers working in a ...

In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete ...

The old man of La Chapelle Discovered in 1908, the skeleton of ""the old man of La Chapelle"" was the first relatively complete skeleton of a Neanderthal individual that scientists had ever found.

Around 70,000 years ago, a Neanderthal was laid to rest in Shanidar Cave. Excavations in recent years have slowly revealed its entire upper body, including a lower back, the clenched bones of a right ...

A British team of archaeologists on Thursday revealed the reconstructed face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman, as researchers reappraise the perception of the species as brutish and ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

In 1993, researchers working inside the Lamalunga cave in Altamura, southern Italy, stumbled across a 10-meter (32-foot) sinkhole. Exploring it, they found it led to a tunnel around 60 meters (197 ...