A reconstruction of the environment that the Margaux woman once inhabited in what is now Belgium's Meuse Valley region. She lived around 10,500 years ago, during the Mesolithic period. | Credit: ©2025 ...

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 2025 Painting a face is something that people have been doing for a very long time. It is such a basic form of art that you will even find very young ...

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 human face. This is the scenario presented by archaeologists in a paper ...

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