(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...
The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...
Maybe Neanderthals were not wiped out in a catastrophic event some 40,000 years ago. In fact, perhaps they never truly disappeared in a definite sense. New research has examined the flow of genes ...
The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...
Neanderthals vanished from the fossil record roughly 40,000 years ago, but traces of their DNA live on in most people alive today. Now a simple population equation, borrowed from the same mathematical ...
Some of their skeletal features resembled those of Homo sapiens, while others were more Neanderthal-like, making the species difficult to classify. The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial ...