The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal symbolic behavior in Europe.

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Having said that, some Neanderthals were also cannibals. Neanderthals could probably talk—but that doesn’t mean they did. Neanderthals probably understood art. Neanderthals were social.

A new study reveals that Stone Age humans in Germany operated a 'fat factory' to extract nutrients from animal bones.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known Neanderthal art that humanity has ever discovered and it is absolutely mind-boggling.

The Neumark-Nord site, discovered back in the 1980s, covers roughly 70 acres. In this region, Neanderthals hunted and ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

A groundbreaking discovery in Spain is challenging our understanding of Neanderthal creativity. Archaeologists recently uncovered a pebble marked with a red pigment that appears to show the oldest ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

As a new sculpture park opens outside Barcelona—and following Charli XCX’s album launch at Storm King Art Center—here are the ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...