Neanderthals Archive
Human Beginnings
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study from the Australian National University (ANU) reveals that an unexplored area in Spain's Southern Pyrenees foothills is providing insights into
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DNA
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York, have documented the first known instance of Down syndrome in Neandertals. An international team
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Featured Stories
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A significant archaeological discovery was made during excavations in the 1950s at the Dziadowa Skala Cave in the Czestochowa Upland region of southern
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Human Beginnings
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered stone tools bound together by a multi-component adhesive, providing further substantiation of the intellectual capacity of Neanderthals. These artifacts represent
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Archaeology
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
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Biology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be
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Artifacts
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hunting the now-extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was widespread among Neanderthals, concludes a research team. In the study published in Proceedings of the
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - How did our species, Homo sapiens, arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, our new study analyzes two skull fragments dating back between 37,000 and 36,000
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Evolution
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.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working in the western part of Racibórz, called Studzienna, Poland, have unearthed stone tools that are 130,000 years old, or possibly even
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DNA
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
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years
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DNA
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. "This confirms
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Archaeology
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
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of evolutionary scientists has presented evidence the Neanderthals vanishing when Homo sapiens emerged in Europe may have been coincidental. In a
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DNA
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Previous studies show Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar
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Archaeology
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
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square
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Human Beginnings
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
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine
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Archaeology
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
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previous archaeological excavations in Jersey revealed Neanderthals visited La Cotte de St Brelade, a coastal cave for over 100,000 years. The cave was
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DNA
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
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past - Neanderthals. But the
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Finland, many unexplored ancient caves hold many secrets. One of them is called Varggrottan, which means Wolf Cave in English. When archaeologists
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have tried to solve the enduring mystery of language evolution, and it seems something that happened 70,000 years ago may shed light
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in Western Europe.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a new study. The archaeological record of Paleolithic
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