Sep 24, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists working in Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar have found what they believe is the first known example of Neanderthal rock art. Neanderthal...

Aug 21, 2014 by News Staff

Anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals were both living in Europe for up to 5,400 years, says a new study conducted by Oxford University researcher...

Jul 8, 2014 by News Staff

Anthropologists are surprised by the presence of a unique inner-ear formation – long thought to occur only in Neanderthals – in an early human...

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

Analysis of sediment samples from El Salt – a known site of Neanderthal occupation in Spain that dates back 50,000 years – suggests that Neanderthals...

May 1, 2014 by News Staff

In a new review of recent studies on Neanderthals, anthropologists have found that complex interbreeding and assimilation may have been responsible for...

Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

A new study reported in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology challenges the traditional view that Neanderthal childhood was short, difficult and dangerous. This...

Apr 8, 2014 by News Staff

A new genetic study, published in the journal Genetics, supports the hypothesis that Neanderthals interbred with anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Eurasia. A...

Jan 30, 2014 by News Staff

In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and...

Dec 19, 2013 by News Staff

Genetic scientists from China have discovered a small portion of Neanderthal genome (18 genes on chromosome 3, with several related to UV-light adaptation)...

Dec 18, 2013 by News Staff

A comparison of the high-quality genome sequence of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman with those of modern humans and Denisovans reveals a long history...

Dec 4, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old...

Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

According to an international group of anthropologists and archaeologists led by Dr Brigitte Holt from the University of Massachusetts, Neanderthals (Homo...

Nov 20, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Oxford and Plymouth University, both in UK, have found evidence of Neanderthal and Denisovan viruses in DNA of modern...

Oct 22, 2013 by News Staff

A dental study of 1,200 molars and premolars from 13 hominin species shows that no known species matches the expected profile of the last common ancestor...

Oct 20, 2013 by News Staff

According to a study published in the journal Science, Denisovans – relatives to both Neanderthals and humans – somehow managed to cross Wallace’s...

Oct 18, 2013 by News Staff

Bitter root plant material found on teeth of Neanderthals suggests their complex diet may have included the stomach contents of hunted animals. Reconstruction...

Sep 17, 2013 by News Staff

New radiocarbon dating on seashell beads found at the Paleolithic site of Ksar Akil in Lebanon indicates that the earliest fully modern humans arrived...

Aug 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of 1,300 stone hand axes found at 80 Neanderthal sites in France, Germany, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands shows that two cultural traditions...

Aug 13, 2013 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from Germany and the Netherlands has found evidence that Neanderthals were making leather-working bone tools before modern humans. Lissoir...

Jul 9, 2013 by News Staff

A broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans shared with us something...