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

They were named after the Neander Valley, where some of the first bones were found in 1856. Denisovan - an extinct human relative of both Neanderthals and modern humans that lived across Asia.

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 ...

A fossilized Neanderthal discovered in a cave system in the Rhône Valley, France, represents an ancient and previously undescribed lineage that diverged from other currently known Neanderthals ...

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

DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals underwent a steep decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago—a forbidding omen of the species’ disappearance approximately 70,000 years later.

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 ...