Forget the old stereotype of the Neanderthal brute. Decades of archaeological discoveries have shown that Neanderthals were capable toolmakers with complex technologies and behaviors once thought ...

Thousands of unremarkable bone scraps from a Romanian cave shelter have turned out to be something far more interesting, ...

Learn how animal bones and stone tools are helping archaeologists reconstruct Neanderthal camp life in northern Spain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of stone tools at the Longtan site in China's Yunnan province suggests the region may once have been home to ...

Archaeologists uncover thousands of ancient tools and bones at a 46,000-year-old Neanderthal camp in northern Spain.

Learn how archaeologists discovered that Ice Age rhino teeth may have been used by Neanderthals to shape, sharpen, and repair stone tools. Stone tools, animal bones, and sharpened antlers are all ...

The tools discovered belong to the Mousterian stone tools tradition associated with the Neanderthals of Europe. Their presence may help identify the locations where people have been chipping flint, ...

Archaeologists in Spain uncovered ancient tools that reveal how some of Aragón’s last Neanderthals lived, traveled and used ...

Located in the Burgos region, the Prado Vargas cave has been extensively studied by archaeologists for a number of years. A ...

“They were believed to be scavengers who made primitive tools and were incapable of language or symbolic thought.”Now, he says, researchers believe that Neanderthals “were highly intelligent, able to ...

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site in France’s Rhône Valley. The study of fossil rhinoceros teeth from this ...

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at ...