On the bank of the Rhône River in southern France, in a limestone cave known as Grotte Mandrin, scientists have uncovered a puzzle so improbable it took nearly a decade to unravel. The jawbone was the ...

Archaeologists have found extensive evidence of animal bones that were butchered for meat in parts of Eurasia that were ...

Their bones were found alongside a Neanderthal hand axe and small flint ... before the plummeting temperatures of the impending ice age drove them out 200,000 years ago. Currently, there is ...

Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new ... This makes him a late Neanderthal or a group that was living up towards the last Ice Age and between ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

One study found that Neanderthals living on the ... “Such may well apply to some extent to the Neanderthal populations of Ice Age Europe’s periglacial belt, but not to those living in the ...

The use of fire by humans goes back more than 300,000 years in Europe, where evidence is seen in Neanderthal hearths. (Related: "Oldest Known Hearth Found in Israel Cave.") But most research has ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that ... And Europe would have been filled with ice age beasts that included woolly rhinoceros, as well ...

Neanderthals cooked crab and created art ... They get the name cave lions due to the fact that most of their bones have been found in Ice Age caves. The fearsome creatures went extinct at the ...

And evidence like needles has yet to be found in association with Neanderthals. “The archaeological record is very poor in this case,” says Abel Moclán, an archaeologist at the Regional Archaeological ...