Neanderthals were highly adaptable hunters that were just as happy taking down mammoths as they were trapping small prey like ...

Unfortunately, wood decays much faster than stone, leaving archaeologists with very little direct evidence of how prehistoric ...

Scientists found evidence that our ancient relatives butchered beavers and marmots for food roughly 130,000 years ago. Yes, actual beavers.

Artistic illustration of Neanderthals returning from a hunt. Credit: Hugo Prades/IPHES-CERCA. At a prehistoric rock shelter ...

Six bone fragments from Abauntz cave in Navarre belong to a 46,000-year-old male Neanderthal; DNA and radiocarbon dating ...

Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and ...

A small, round hole in a Neanderthal’s shoulder blade suggests a wooden spear pierced the chest about 75,000 years ago. The ...

It took a while, but researchers believe they now have a molecular marker to reliably spot Denisovan fossils. Compared with ...

Wooden objects usually decompose quickly, but periodic flooding and minerals in the water helped preserve those at a site ...

Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say. Neanderthal remains recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.

By Will Dunham Oct 15 (Reuters) - The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of ...