There’s a cave in Spain that seems to have held some sort of ritual significance to Neanderthals, though researchers have no ...

This tradition took place inside a cave called the Des-Cubierta in present-day Spain. Analysis of the contents inside the ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil examined for the study, “all of them manifest what we call ‘mosaic morphology,’ in the sense that they have both Neanderthal and ...

Art is often held up as the most “human” of human endeavors. For millennia, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists have used art and symbolic thinking as behavioral indices for what makes humans ...

Neanderthals shared many features with their ancestors—a prominent brow, weak chin, sloping skull and large nose—but were as big-brained as the anatomically modern humans that later colonized Europe, ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...