Rewriting Human History: 110,000-Year-Old Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Worked Together
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.
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Neanderthals Were Smarter Than We Ever Realized
More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...
Neanderthals and Early Humans Hung Out Way More Than We Thought, Study Finds
The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.
130,000-year-old clues from Israel’s Tinshemet Cave point to shared Homo behaviors
These findings came from an excavation led by Israeli researchers from Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and other academic institutions in the country starting back in 2017.
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The last days of the Neanderthals
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens mixed genetically ... (World's oldest cave art found—and Neanderthals made it.) Carved about 13,000 years ago, during the Magdalenian culture, these bone and ...
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First burials: Compelling evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange
The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...
How sex with Neanderthals changed us forever
Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to ...
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When did human language emerge?
Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.
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Are Neanderthals the same species as us?
Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...
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World’s Oldest Human Burials Show Neanderthals And Homo Sapiens Shared Culture And Technology
Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...
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The Mutation That Changed Everything
It allowed Homo sapiens to surpass their more substantial ... They created tools, art, music, and civilizations. Over millennia, they expanded their reach—first across continents and then ...
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Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago
Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old ... but they had fewer existing genetic studies to draw upon. Now, there are much more published data available, which, when considered ...