Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago, according to a study published in the Journal ...

TEL AVIV, Israel • Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

The archeologists were getting ready to close up the site, but one of their final scans of the thick rock revealed something interesting: an outline of a human skull. What they discovered was the ...

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Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago—which, based on its location, means that said someone must have been a ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) shared the Earth for thousands of years, walking the same landscapes ...

Two Neanderthals present at the same cave site 10 millennia apart were distant relatives, a tiny 110,000-year-old bone fragment from the Altai Mountains in Siberia reveals. The fragment has also ...

Miners in Germany's Neander Valley unearthed peculiar bones in 1856, revealing evidence of a distinct human type. This ...