A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

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Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk — a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago — ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analysed the dynamics of possible encounters ...

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 ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...