A small team of archaeologists, two from Germany, one from Denmark and another from Iran, has identified a potential region ...

Geologist Alfonso Benito Calvo, a researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is one of the codirectors of the ninth excavation campaign at the Neanderthal ...

Traditionally, Neanderthal behavior was considered to be less complex than that of our own species. But over the past decades, a growing body of evidence has challenged this view, with research ...

ANU archaeologist Dr Sofia Samper Carro says the insights found at Abric Pizarro challenge widespread beliefs that Neanderthals only hunted large animals. An unchartered area in the foothills of ...

The most recent episode is widely acknowledged and was first identified in 2010 when the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Svante Pääbo. However ...

The discovery of a rare Neanderthal rock shelter from the period before Homo sapiens arrived in Western Europe has provided some surprising new insights into how these extinct humans lived when ...

Abric Pizarro was a Neanderthal rock shelter discovered in 2008, and archaeologists have been carefully working to dig up its secrets since 2009. Samper Carro and her colleagues have now conducted ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

Step back in time on a journey to the key Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic sites of southern France between Bordeaux and Nice with Palaeolithic archaeologist and author Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes.

Over the past 12,000 years, humans in Europe have dramatically increased their ability to digest carbohydrates, expanding the ...

Over two thousand remains of animals and stone tools from the Neanderthal period were recovered in the ninth excavation ...

Living on the edge: Abric Pizarro, a MIS 4 Neanderthal site in the lowermost foothills of the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees (Lleida, Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Archaeological Science , 2024; 169: ...