The face of a Neanderthal man who died 56,000 years ago has been seen again after a Brazilian graphics expert used a skull found in 1908 to reconstruct what he may have looked like.
Based on the shape, spacing and arrangement of these engravings, scientists believe the markings in France were deliberate, organized and intentional shapes created by Neanderthal fingers.
Humankind’s most remote past continues to provide surprises, this in one of the most famous of prehistoric sites. LiveScience Associate Editor Laura Geggel has the story of a partial Neanderthal skeleton found in the Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. And archaeologists think the rest of the person might reside 300 miles away! Geggel provides a […]
Well, if the Denisovans and Neanderthals were so smart, then why are they dead? Probably because scurrilous H. sapiens ripped off their advanced technology to use it against ’em. Noted Homo sapien Joel Hruska takes a moment to illustrate our species’s crowning achievement this side of the smartphone. Much like this 50,000-Year Old, Tar-Smeared Tool […]
Researchers at Jagiellonian University in Krakow say tiny holes in the bones, found in a cave in South Poland, show they passed through a ‘large bird’s digestive system’.
In this first of a two-part review of Bernard Heuvelmans’ Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman (Anomalist Books, also now available in hardback), Darren Naish, a palaeozoologist affiliated with the University of Southampton, UK, praises the long-awaited English translation of the book, summarizes the remarkable tale and it’s clock and dagger aspects, and […]
A new study has provided new insights into the evolution and migration of modern humans, finding both Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA preserved in the genetic codes of the inhabitants of the Melanesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Melanesia is a sub …
Denisovans and Neanderthals went extinct thousands of years ago. But scientists have found fragments of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in the genomes of modern residents of Melanesia. In fact, Melanesians have the highest degree of ancient DNA ever …
The DNA of these ancient individuals, whose bones were discovered 30 year ago, has been meticulously analyzed and revealed to be the oldest ever found, The Christian Science Monitor reported. The implications of this discovery is that humans' branch of …
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