Along the southwestern coast of Portugal, fossilized footprints preserved in ancient dunes provide a rare glimpse into ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

A newly examined Neanderthal skull, once thought to confirm cold-climate adaptations, has challenged a century-old assumption ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...