An 8-inch rock found at an archaeological site in central Spain is the latest indication that Neanderthals were making art long before modern humans, further eroding stereotypes of the extinct ...

Neanderthals may have made art just like modern humans do, researchers in Spain have said. The findings, published in the Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences journal, challenge existing ...

The dot seemed like evidence of a Neanderthal using their imagination to project a symbol onto an object—creating art, if you will—thereby contradicting the conventional belief that modern ...

Researchers in Spain say they have found evidence that Neanderthals were capable of creating art — challenging the idea that art began with the modern humans who succeeded them. The canvas was a ...

Scientists in Spain say they have discovered the oldest full human fingerprint after unearthing a rock which they say resembles a human face and suggests Neanderthals could make art. A Neanderthal ...

Credit: Tom Björklund. Skin color is one of the most ... to pale skin through the mixture of populations. What about Neanderthals who occupied Europe for tens of thousands of years before modern ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Unlike the stereotypical image of burly, brutish cave dwellers, Neanderthals were actually quite sophisticated. They built shelters, made clothing from animal hides, and even created art and jewelry .

Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which Neanderthals interbred with ... across the open steppe landscapes of Europe (Tom Björklund) Archaeological and genetic evidence ...

Credit: Tom Björklund for Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology After modern humans left Africa, they met and interbred with Neanderthals, resulting in around 2–3% Neanderthal DNA ...