Neanderthals are popularly regarded as the large and stupid cousins of humans who lack our intellectual sophistication. After all, they went extinct — we didn't (at least not yet.) Despite decades of ...

Examples of engravings discovered in the Roche-Cotard cave (Indre et Loire - France). On the left, the "circular panel" (ogive-shaped tracings) and on the right the "wavy panel" (two contiguous ...

Art is often held up as the most “human” of human endeavors. For millennia, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists have used art and symbolic thinking as behavioral indices for what makes humans ...

Jean-Claude explains bear markings to PhD student Trine Friesleben. (photo by and courtey Kristina Jørkov Thomsen) Homo sapiens have long looked down on Neanderthals as the less sophisticated side of ...

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Here are 10 major Neanderthal findings from 2025 — and what they teach us about our own evolution. Homo erectus H. sapiens ...

Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to take OSL samples. (Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in ...

For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

It turns out that, 40,000 years ago, European Neanderthals were successful engineers and chemists. A new study has revealed that our ancient relatives concocted a glue from two different raw materials ...

According to researchers who recently analyzed famous cave paintings in France, there is another adjective that should be associated with Neanderthals — artistically inclined. Indeed, as the scholars ...

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