Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...

The research is at odds with the image of Neanderthals, ancient human relatives who went extinct around 40,000 years ago, as brutish cavemen. “The individual would have needed continuous and ...

Famed archaeologist Ralph Solecki documented two types of burials in the Shanidar Cave in the 1950s in Iraqi Kurdistan, a site where the remains of a dozen Neanderthals lay. Commonly considered "cave ...