Archaeologists discovered a bone spearhead approximately 80,000 years old, identified as the oldest bone spearhead in Europe ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Neanderthal habitation in Kunakhera Cave, located in the Zagros Mountain range in ...

Most incredibly, it was made by Neanderthals, demonstrating that this extinct archaic human species was already developing advanced hunting tools long before modern humans arrived in Europe.

Indeed important differences have been found between Neanderthals and modern humans in their life history and demography, including faster growth and possibly shorter life expectancy in ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among ...

Schematic representation of the changes in morphological diversity along the evolutionary history of the Neanderthal clade. Sima de los Huesos and, particularly, Krapina populations show similarly ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. (Photo: Allan Henderson under CC BY 2.0) Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...