Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

But how much Homo sapiens culture rubbed off onto Neanderthals? Fortunately, there were several millennia before the two species made contact where we can see what innovations Neanderthals cooked ...

This last culture of Neanderthals would have lived alongside a large group of Homo sapiens who arrived in Europe from Africa and began spreading throughout Europe to Spain, Italy, and France. This ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture. The unprecedented discovery at Longtan had “significant implications ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...