More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

The Neanderthal is also shown with body decoration, as evidence suggests this artistic behaviour was not unique to modern humans. In fact, body painting may have been the earliest form of art - ochre ...

Some scientists believe it was removed after burial, but we don't know why. Prof Stringer says, 'So far, in my opinion, we don't have representational art from Neanderthal sites. But they did exhibit ...

These findings came from an excavation led by Israeli researchers from Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and other ...

An international team of researchers has successfully directly dated the remains of the so-called Lapedo Child, an infant ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...