Neanderthals living at caves less than 45 miles apart appear to have used different techniques while preparing meat, ...

Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

For Neanderthal hunters equipped with wood and stone hunting tools, the place was a veritable buffet. And you might expect ...

Neanderthals in two Israeli caves used distinct meat-cutting methods, hinting at cultural food traditions passed down through ...

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

These differences in butchery practices cannot be explained by tool type, skill, or available resources, indicating that ...

By comparing cut marks on bones found at northern Israel caves, researchers find early humans clung to passed-down methods ...

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

Bone samples and genetic evidence indicate Neanderthals lived in Europe and Central Asia until about 40,000 years ago. Recent studies have shown those last Neanderthals all belonged to a single ...

The carver was almost certainly a Neanderthal, based on the bone’s radiocarbon-dated age, because no one but Neanderthals lived in Europe until around 45,000 years ago.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...