More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

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New discoveries are rewriting human evolution faster than ever before. From Denisovan–Neanderthal hybrids to 175,000-year-old underground structures built without sunlight, the old “caveman” ...

Archaeologists have uncovered mysterious collections of animal skulls in a Neanderthal cave, raising new questions about their rituals and symbolic practices.

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“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, ...

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

Neanderthals appear to have carried them into the cave in separate visits. The time period, researchers think, is possibly ...

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New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

AI recreates Neanderthals with ancient stereotypes and revives scientific errors of the past in its current digital images.