Neanderthals Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers, co-led by experts from University College London (UCL), has formally identified genetic variants that influence the morphology of human teeth.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has provided a more precise timeline for when Neanderthals

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Inside the Maltravieso Cave in Spain, researchers have carefully examined several fascinating ancient rock paintings. Dating cave art is typically challenging because mineral-based

AncientPages.com - The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: in Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The study of ancient hominins, particularly Neanderthals, has been a subject of scientific inquiry since the discovery of their bones in 1856. This

AncientPages.com - Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, became extinct? It’s possible we were just smarter, but there’s surprisingly little evidence

AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  In 2023, scientists presented several interesting studies that gave us a better knowledge of our ancient human ancestors. In this article, we selected

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our long-gone ancestors, the Neanderthals, did not differ that much from modern humans. Like us, the Neanderthals were curious about the world around

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually

AncientPages.com - When we think of Neanderthals, we often imagine these distant ancestors of ours to be rather brutish, dying at a young age and ultimately becoming extinct.

AncientPages.com - For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at

AncientPages.com - When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many years ago, in 1986, the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia in Spain received a box. The gift was a donation from amateur paleontologist

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch