Not much is known about the mysterious, prehistoric Châtelperronian people, but they did leave behind some tantalizing clues.

Neanderthals weren’t brutish cavemen. Evidence shows they invented glue, created fire with flint and pyrite, buried their dead, and painted caves 65,000 years ago — long before Homo sapiens reached ...

Stone tools dated to at least 130,000 years ago were found on Crete, an island separated from the mainland for over 5 million years. Likely Mousterian or Acheulean, the artifacts suggest Neanderthals ...

The oldest workshop for making shell jewelry has been unearthed at the Paleolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot in ...

Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

A new study suggests that fragments unearthed at an archaeological site in Uzbekistan look like other examples of arrowheads ...

Ancestral Skills, Modern Traits Interestingly, these genetic traits align closely with Neanderthal behaviors. Archaeologists studying Neanderthal stone tool-making note that their Levallois technique ...

A study involving the University of Seville reveals the first Neanderthal footprints of adults, children and birds in southern Portugal, a discovery ...

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 ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...