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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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