The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Scientists in Britain say new evidence suggests ancient humans may have mastered the art of making fire far earlier than ...

East of England; evidence that was uncovered this week and suggests that early neanderthals might have made fire 350 thousand years earlier than we previously thought. Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes is ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

This peaceful German valley is where the first Neanderthal was discovered and identified as a separate species.

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

They used to live in caves, hunt their food and were generally tougher than modern-day humans. But a new study finds if you have Neanderthal genes, you are twice as likely to develop a ...