It’s the first time such a discovery has been made in the region. Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new discovery in China is challenging long-held beliefs about human evolution in East Asia. Archaeologists have unearthed ...

“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 ...

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

ZWOLEN, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that archaeologists have uncovered a site in the Mazovia region that they believe served as a Neanderthal tool workshop around 70,000 years ago. The site of ...

By the time modern humans began filtering into Europe around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals they encountered were already ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of ...

A small pocket of northwestern Spain may have been home to one of last Neanderthal populations ever to exist, just as the ...

The study was led by Ariane Burke, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal’s Department of Anthropology. Her team ...