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

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 ...

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 ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“We infer that the nose shape of Neanderthals and Denisovans, were relatively different from the average [modern human], but were similar to the nose shape of [modern African humans] to some ...

We still carry Neanderthals’ legacy in our DNA. Modern-day genetic quirks linked to skin color, hair color and even nose shape can be traced back to our extinct former neighbors. And our genetic ...

The quartz-rich granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a Rudolph-like red ... This isn’t the first time a Neanderthal fingerprint has been pinpointed, the authors ...