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 ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

In 1856, quarry workers in a peaceful German valley stumbled across 16 bones that would shake the foundations of science. This is the incredible story of 'Neanderthal 1', the first ever Neanderthal to ...

This theory challenges long-standing ideas of conflict-driven extinction and places gene flow at the center of the Neanderthal story. As more fossil and genetic data accumulate, the idea that ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

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Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...