Traces of nearly 600 wooden items have been recovered at a Neanderthal site in Spain, suggesting this extinct hominin was as ...

Six bone fragments from Abauntz cave in Navarre belong to a 46,000-year-old male Neanderthal; DNA and radiocarbon dating ...

A small, round hole in a Neanderthal’s shoulder blade suggests a wooden spear pierced the chest about 75,000 years ago. The ...

Artistic illustration of Neanderthals returning from a hunt. Credit: Hugo Prades/IPHES-CERCA. At a prehistoric rock shelter ...

Wooden objects usually decompose quickly, but periodic flooding and minerals in the water helped preserve those at a site ...

Once formally proposed as Homo stupidus and portrayed as knuckle-dragging ape-men, Neanderthals are finally receiving their ...

A round hole in the shoulder blade (scapula) of a Neanderthal whose partial remains were unearthed in a cave in Iraqi ...

Neanderthals might be famous for their use of sophisticated stone tools, but new evidence suggests that they were also ...

There is even more evidence that Neanderthals were far from the simple cave dwellers we once thought them to be. The ...

Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.

New fossil evidence from a Neanderthal burial site could be an early example of homicide among the species — but anthropologists say there’s more to the story.