A reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman's face, based on a skull unearthed in Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. The skull belonged to a woman who died around 75,000 years ago and was crushed to bits.

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

A UK bio-archaeologist has reconstructed the face of a woman who lived in Dorset about 2,000 years ago. The face was recreated using evidence from her remains, hinting at how the woman looked when ...

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 ...