Directly dating fossils from the same layers as the Schöningen spears led researchers to the surprising finding that the ...

The discovery of a weapon in a Russian cave challenges conventional ideas about the technical capabilities of Neanderthals.

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them ...

An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between ...

For decades, the accepted theory of human migration suggested that Homo sapiens arrived to America ... uncovered evidence of humans living and hunting in what is now southern California a whopping ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

"To be an effective hunting weapon, the bone point does not ... rather than being the primitive offspring of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals were in fact an innovative and driven species who devised ...