The cave paintings include stencilled impressions of Neanderthal hands, geometric patterns and red circles. They occupy three sites at La Pasiega, Maltravieso and Ardales - situated up to 700km ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

The most striking claim is that Neanderthals made art, painting red pigment on cave walls in Spain. But several of these cave art claims remain problematic. The evidence for Neanderthal cave art ...

Neanderthals crafted sophisticated tools, may have made art, decorated their bodies, buried their dead, and had advanced communication abilities, albeit a more primitive kind of language than ...

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75,000-Year-Old Female Neanderthal from Cave Where Species Buried Their Dead ... hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries ...

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals ...

(CNN) — When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was immediately obvious that they belonged to a Neanderthal, the first ...

The most famous of these sites, the Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq, has the best-preserved Neanderthal ever discovered. Other studies found similarities between the facial features of Neanderthals ...

When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was immediately obvious that they belonged to a Neanderthal, the first intact remains of ...

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