Neanderthal
Rock found by a 6-year-old on a beach is actually a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal ax
Three years ago, a then-6-year-old boy named Ben discovered a strange rock on a beach in Sussex, England. He took…
Read More »65,000-year-old hearth in Gibraltar may have been a Neanderthal ‘glue factory,’ study finds
Archaeologists in the Iberian Peninsula have discovered a 65,000-year-old tar-making “factory” engineered by Neanderthals — a feat pulled off 20,000…
Read More »Scientists Let Defrosted Neanderthal Run Around Shrieking Before Refreezing Him
SAN DIEGO—Appearing excited by a change of pace around the lab, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, reportedly…
Read More »Science news this week: ‘Thorin’ the last Neanderthal and a ‘smiley face’ on Mars
Having a cursory glance at science headlines this week, you could be forgiven for thinking that life is futile and…
Read More »Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia
The jawbone of a Neanderthal known as Thorin, who is thought to have been part of an isolated population Xavier…
Read More »Neanderthal cooking skills put to the test with birds and stone tools
A researcher plucks a bird as part of an experiment into Neanderthals’ cooking skills Mariana Nabais Archaeologists have cooked and…
Read More »Want to cook like a Neanderthal? Archaeologists are learning the secrets
Enlarge / A scientist defeathers one of the birds used in hands-on experiments to replicate Neanderthal butchering and cooking methods.…
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