More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

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

A cutting-edge radiocarbon technique has provided the most precise date yet for the Lapedo Child, a prehistoric skeleton with both Neanderthal and modern human traits. Found in Portugal’s Lapedo ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...

Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

In 1998, researchers exploring the Lapedo Valley in central Portugal came ... a mixture of both human and Neanderthal features suggesting a “hybrid” between the two evolutionary relatives.

The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley ...