Ochre is an iron-rich mineral pigment that was used by many ancient civilizations for color, decoration and practical tasks ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was ...

The Director of the Gibraltar National Museum, Professor Clive Finlayson, has been awarded the William King Medal by the ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

Recent scientific findings suggest that Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than their Homo sapiens ...

A tiny bone from Starosele Cave, Crimea, has yielded ancient DNA showing it belonged to a Neanderthal dubbed “Star 1”.

Researchers discovered Neanderthal DNA at a site in Crimea, revealing genetic and cultural links to Asian populations.

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...

Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...