Scientists have extracted the entire genome of a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal from a single toe bone in a Siberian cave, an accomplishment that far outstrips any previous work on Neanderthal genes.

Cancer is not a modern disease. Evidence shows it affected ancient human species long before recorded history, including a ...

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Two Neanderthals present at the same cave site 10 millennia apart were distant relatives, a tiny 110,000-year-old bone fragment from the Altai Mountains in Siberia reveals. The fragment has also ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago—which, based on its location, means that said someone must have been a ...

Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago, according to a study published in the Journal ...

Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

"Modern humans" in an archaeological sense refers to Cro-Magnon man (and contemporaries) and everybody afterward. Essentially, homo sapiens for the last 60,000 years or so. In case you're not joking, ...