A 50,000-year record of mammals consumed by early humans in southwestern France indicates there was no major difference in the prey hunted by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, according to a new study. A 50 ...

DNA evidence suggests that early humans didn't find Neanderthals so hot. July 16, 2008 — -- Did the first modern humans in Europe share a bed with nearby Neanderthals? Almost certainly not, ...

Indeed the Cro-Magnons were explorers, shamen and visionaries throughout the Ice Ages. The name Cro-Magnon was derived from anthropologist Louis Lartet's discovery in 1868 of a burial site of five ...

Surely one of the greatest of great stories is mankind’s own story, from its remote and far-distant beginnings to the last hundred thousand years or so, during which modern humans emerged from the ...

About 5,600 years ago, a 20-year-old woman was buried with a tiny baby resting on her chest, a sad clue that she likely died in childbirth during the Neolithic. This woman and six other ancient ...

HOUSTON — The search for the early history of Homo sapiens sapiens is endless. Bit by bit we add to the prehistoric picture of what went on before that first recorded eclipse in 4241 B.C. Even the ...

Nineteen years ago, two boys out hunting in the Dordogne region of France chased a rabbit into a hole. Enlarging the hole, the boys lowered themselves into a vast cave that had been sealed away for ...