Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the ...

Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relative; they lived between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, primarily in Europe and ...

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

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

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

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

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

Scientists in Spain found a 43,000-year-old fingerprint. It is on a stone with a red dot. The dot looks like a nose. This ...

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of ...

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 ...

Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...