Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a ...

The discovery could deepen our understanding of the Neanderthal mind, but some experts aren’t convinced by the interpretation ...

Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

The print was left on a 43,000-year-old piece of artwork made on a stone by a Neanderthal. It’s a rare instance of a rock not ...

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

Around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal dipped their finger in ocher and stamped the very center of a pebble. This one small ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

The fingerprint was detected on a red mark on a 21.4 cm x 11.3 cm x 7.6 cm granite pebble containing quartz minerals.

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.