A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural ...

Or that competition with Neanderthals, present in Europe until around 25,000 years ago, pushed modern humans to express their identity by painting on cave walls—ancient hominin flag-planting.

(Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in the world have been found on the walls of a cave in Central France, researchers said on ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Neanderthals were making their mark on caves long before modern humans came to Europe. A paper published Monday (August 2) in PNAS confirms that ...

Created using red pigment, the Spanish cave paintings included hand stencils and geometric shapes. 'Some previous claims for Neanderthal symbolic behaviour have dating uncertainties or lie within ...

The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were discovered by a climber in Rio de Janeiro. The paintings, which could be up to ...

A cave in Israel reveals traces of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens that differs ... Its use, attested in several prehistoric sites, includes body decoration, cave paintings, and ...

A Neanderthal skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Photo by Graeme Barke) (CN) – What’s the difference between accidentally ...