Deep within Spain's El Sidrón Cave in Asturias, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Neanderthal family massacred over 49,000 years ago. Join paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi and Professor ...

Scientists discovered a 125,000-year-old Neanderthal site in Germany where thousands of animal bones were crushed to extract fat, revealing surprisingly advanced survival strategies.

Experiments show Neanderthals extracted birch tar and used it for several applications, including its antibiotic wound healing properties ...

Archaeologists unearthed a sealed chamber in Gibraltar's Vanguard Cave. This untouched space, sealed for 40,000 years, preserves a unique glimpse into Neanderthal survival. Animal remains and a whelk ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

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Archaeologists are used to slow, careful discoveries. Most digs reveal fragments, small pieces that tell only part of the story. At a lakeside site in Germany, researchers digging into a low hill came ...

Birch tar was among the most useful materials available to prehistoric humans and was primarily used as a glue to bind stone blades onto wooden handles or arrowheads onto shafts. However, we now have ...

Tar made from birch tree bark is commonly found at Neanderthal sites, and experiments show that it kills some bacteria that cause skin infections ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fragments of Neanderthal bones found in a cave show that one group cannibalised women and children from another group - Digital ...

Genomic analysis of three Neanderthals shows unusually high modern human DNA on the X chromosome offering clues about ...