Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

A surprising discovery in a Spanish cave reveals that Neanderthal children may have had a passion for collecting.

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

The sticky tar helped Neanderthals produce glue to make weapons and tools. The so-called factory — a carefully designed ...

All cultures, however primitive, have used glues, resins and pitches obtained from various plants for their mechanical or ...

Previous research shows Neanderthals engaged in cultural rituals such as ornamental crafting, cave wall art, and even ...

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA ...

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

This evidence of “earlier collectors” was found in the Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain. Researchers claimed that ...

An international team of scientists, with the participation of the University of Seville, has discovered in the Vanguard Cave a structure created by Neanderthals 60,000 years ago. The purpose of this ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than ...

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