A groundbreaking discovery in Spain is challenging our understanding of Neanderthal creativity. Archaeologists recently ...

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 ...

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

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic significance.

These are stone tools clearly associated with Neanderthal occupations ... The application of red pigment to make a nose reinforces the perception of a face, and acts as a symbolically charged ...

Ochre mark is thought to be oldest complete fingerprint ever found and may suggest Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought ...

Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...

Archaelogists are celebrating a one-of-a-kind find: the perfectly preserved mark of a Neanderthal fingerprint. Approximately ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.