Neanderthal and modern human children living during the Upper Palaeolithic may have faced similar levels of childhood stress but at different developmental stages
Revealed: face of Shanidar Z, a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from the cave where species supposedly buried their dead
Did Neanderthals use glue? Analysis of 40,000-year old tools reveals surprisingly sophisticated construction
Stone tool technology suggest that the commonly held view of a ‘revolution’ at the time of the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia was a more nuanced and complicated process of cultural evolution
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago and lived alongside Neanderthals, according to three new studies
Hunting of straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago; the study has been published in PNAS
‘Woman the hunter’: studies aim to correct history, the last one being published in the November issue of Scientific American
In search of the last Neanderthals: The Universities of Bologna, Siena, and Haifa will conduct a new ERC-funded project with 13 million euros
For the first time, a new study by an international research team shows Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the pelt of this dangerous carnivore
Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar using computational modelling reveals what kinds of cognition were required for the materials produced by Neanderthal and early modern humans
