Neanderthals Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Researchers undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Learning more about the Neanderthals and Denisovans is significant if we want to understand how these extinct species are related to modern humans.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 51,000-year-old bone carving engraved with symbols offers evidence the Neanderthals were not as primitive as previously thought and it is time to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How related are modern humans to the Neanderthals? Previous studies show modern humans have much more in common with the Neanderthals than previously

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have analyzed the genome of the oldest human fossil found in Mongolia to date and show that the 34,000-year-old woman inherited around

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study shows Neanderthals and modern humans are more related than previously thought. Studies of the Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - German-Italian research project investigates different cutting tools from the Sesselfelsgrotte cave in Lower Bavaria. Now they know that  Neanderthals had to develop more

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - With the help of the Neanderthal genomes of high quality that are available for studies, researchers can now identify genetic variants that were

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have just unearthed the well-preserved upper body skeleton of an adult Neanderthal who lived about 70,000 years ago. The place of this

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that Neanderthals dived into the cool waters of the Mediterranean Sea to gather clam shells. Researchers have focused their

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction, researchers say. Neanderthal extinction could have occurred without environmental pressure or competition with

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When and where did the first human appear? For years, archaeologists and scientists have tried to answer this troublesome question and new discoveries

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com  - Many questions remain about Neanderthals, extinct human species, which lived at the same time as early modern humans. In which areas did they

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A flint flake from the Middle Paleolithic of Crimea was likely engraved symbolically by a skilled Neanderthal hand, according to a new study.

AncientPages.com - The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but after humans and Neanderthals met many thousands of years ago, the two species began interbreeding and much of

AncientPages.com - When and where did Neanderthals and modern Humans meet? No-one has been able to answer that question. Now, a team of archaeologists say there is evidence the

Thalia Lightbringer - AncientPages.com - Evidence has come forth from the Po Valley, San Daniele region of Italy that in the time of the Neanderthals, the region had something

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them. The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There are still many things we don’t know about Neanderthals. Still, new discoveries provide us with knowledge about our closest extinct human relatives

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Located deep in a cave in France, two mysterious ancient stone rings were made by a group of people who mastered the underground