A recently published study suggests humans' creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought ...

To determine whether the previously unearthed ocher found at Crimean Neanderthal sites could have been used to create ...

Neanderthals may have been less primitive and more engaged in cultural practices, similar to those of early humans, than ...

Ochre is an iron-rich mineral pigment that was used by many ancient civilizations for color, decoration and practical tasks ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

The Crimean Neanderthals' selective processing and long-term use of coloring materials shows that they were actively making ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae. The finding adds to the picture that researchers are painting of how our ...

The bones were discovered at two caves in the 1990s, but scientists recently revisited them to take a closer look at the cut marks. Anaëlle Jallon Neanderthals living at caves less than 45 miles apart ...