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

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

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

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

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

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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

The first analysis of a well-preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record has revealed that the hefty Neanderthal nose wasn’t adapted to cold climates in the way many people thought it was.

70,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in Ukraine’s Crimea region deliberately shaped ochre into crayon-like tools for making marks and designs, according to new research that challenges longstanding ...