Birch tar, a sticky, dark substance, served as a powerful adhesive, allowing the Neanderthals to craft tools and weapons with ...

Cut into a Gibraltar cliff face overlooking the Alboran Sea, a cave opening leads back in time to one of the earliest ...

The archaeologists are "employing a rigorous methodological approach" while excavating the cave, Bernardini said, including the use of "structure-from-motion photogrammetry" to create virtual 3D maps ...

Perhaps this tiny, crooked passage would lead to a new cave structure, one that early humans had used. Among the many toys our crew brings to the field, we carry several kinds of miniaturized cameras.

With the soft crunching of snow underfoot, Jordan walks steadily through the imposing ice structure, heading "towards the exit and entry to the cave," where, he says, "just outside the cave is sea ice ...