Archaeologists have reconstructed the human-like face of a Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago in a cave where the extinct species may have conducted unique funerary rituals. Bone ...

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

What would it be like to meet one of our closest human relatives from 75,000 years ago in the flesh? Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have ...

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 ...

The British navy first identified a Neanderthal skull in Forbes' Quarry Cave in 1848, and excavations at Gorham's Cave began in the early 1990s. Within this cave, excavators found dozens of ...

A chance finding of bones in a cave is revealing clues of a much older tragic mystery. Five teeth uncovered in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015 could explain why 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 ...

A new study, based on the remains of a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin, is shaking up what archaeologists long thought about these early humans in Europe Sarah Kuta Two teeth and a small adult arm ...

a cave in Rhône Valley, France. He and his team had been working the area since 1998 to find remnants of humanity’s prehistoric forbearers, and after 17 years, they certainly found something: a piece ...

(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 ...