We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the ...

For decades, many paleoarchaeologists believed Neanderthals went extinct largely because they just weren’t intelligent enough ...

A human skull (left) and a Neanderthal skull (right). (hairymuseummatt/DrMikeBaxter/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) More than 40,000 years ago, the European continent was home to two human lineages: ...

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...

Researchers unearthed a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar that shows signs of dental surgery, a discovery that pushes back ...

Neanderthals were long portrayed as primitive cave dwellers, but the evidence now tells a very different story. They hunted, made tools, used fire, cared for the injured, created shelters, collected ...

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...

In a cave in Cartagena, Spain, limpet shells and snails were found, collected in the same way modern humans would have done ...

In a study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ...