The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, ...

New Teeth Analysis Reveals Humans and Neanderthals Split 800,000 Years Ago, Yet We Have a Mysterious Common Ancestor New ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is now Israel, a new study finds. . | Credit: Efrat Bakshitz Archaeologists in Israel have discovered five ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

The child’s remains were discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in central Portugal. The nearly complete skeleton was stained red, and scientists think it may have been ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. The child's ...

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