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 ...

A Neanderthal man is believed to have painted a nose on a pebble using red pigment more than 43,000 years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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