For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A taste for maggots could explain a distinctive chemical signature detected in Neanderthal remains, research suggests. - Science ...

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Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some archaeologists and anthropologists believe these early humans, who disappeared ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 ...

(CNN) — Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled around a fire. Or so thought many archaeologists who study the ...