The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study ...

Archaeologists have found a hole in a 59,000-year-old tooth, which they say was drilled to treat a painful cavity. The find suggests Neanderthals could perform complex medical procedures.

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.

That’s because the archeologists suspected that Neanderthals once used rhino teeth as tools. By using the teeth to make stone ...

About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal living in the mountains of Siberia had one hell of a toothache, and seemingly, decided to do something about it.

A new study of 250,000-year-old fossil teeth from France suggests climate shifts repeatedly isolated and reconnected ...

Neanderthal fossils suggest that they must have endured a lot of pain. “When you look at adult Neanderthal fossils, particularly the bones of the arms and skull, you see [evidence of] fractures,” says ...

Neanderthals may have been far more like us than once believed. A new review of genetic, archaeological, and fossil evidence ...

A fossil unearthed on Eastern Europe’s Crimean Peninsula has divulged the strongest genetic clues yet about Neandertals’ long-distance journeys into the heart of Asia. After identifying a bone ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...