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Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at the Mandrin Cave suggest as much. The researchers' work has yielded ...

The Denisova cave is located in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, Russia, where archaeologists have found fossilized remains of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. A notable discovery is ...

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Neanderthals may have made art just like modern humans do, researchers in Spain have said. The findings, published in the Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences journal, challenge existing ...

An 8-inch rock found at an archaeological site in central Spain is the latest indication that Neanderthals were making art long before modern humans, further eroding stereotypes of the extinct ...

Scientists in Spain say they have discovered the oldest full human fingerprint after unearthing a rock which they say resembles a human face and suggests Neanderthals could make art. A Neanderthal ...

Modern humans likely encountered Neanderthals in Europe around 45,000 years ago—and got to know each other rather closely. About 21,500 generations now sit between us and our extinct hominin ...

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at ...

History with Kayleigh Neanderthal Gene Variants Slow Drug Metabolism Posted: May 26, 2025 | Last updated: May 26, 2025 Way back in the day, when Neanderthals and Homo sapiens lived together in the ...

A fingerprint left by a Neanderthal on a rock 43,000 years ago could be the oldest known figurative representation of a human face, scientists have suggested. The discovery of the pebble marked in ...