Dental microwear analysis, which allows for the microscopic study of surface textures, confirmed that the marks were made ...

Research suggests Neanderthals likely had a wide range of skin and hair pigmentation rather than one fixed appearance. Some ...

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study ...

For decades, many paleoarchaeologists believed Neanderthals went extinct largely because they just weren’t intelligent enough ...

In a study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography wrote that the single tooth —which was found in the Chagyrskaya Cave and had a ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have uncovered surprising facts that challenge previously held notions about Neanderthals thanks to a trove of ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they were desperate enough to sit still while someone drilled into the tooth with ...