Neanderthals are popularly regarded as the large and stupid cousins of humans who lack our intellectual sophistication. After all, they went extinct — we didn't (at least not yet.) Despite decades of ...

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Over 57,000 years ago, a group of Paleolithic humans stood in a cave beneath the French countryside, pressing their fingers against the rock, dragging them against the soft, chalky rock of the cave, ...

The story of humanity’s past has been told through the tools and traces left behind. From time to time, a discovery surfaces that upends what we thought we knew. One such revelation has come from a ...

Jean-Claude explains bear markings to PhD student Trine Friesleben. (photo by and courtey Kristina Jørkov Thomsen) Homo sapiens have long looked down on Neanderthals as the less sophisticated side of ...

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, ...

Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to take OSL samples. (Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in ...

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 ...

Neanderthals used their fingers to carve symbols into the wall of a cave in France at least 57,000 years ago. The engravings are some of the oldest known examples of Neanderthal art and are possibly ...

57,000-year-old engravings on the walls of a French cave may have been the work of Neanderthals. Experts think the images are finger flutings, made by sweeping fingers through a soft surface. These ...

A human skull (left) and a Neanderthal skull (right). (hairymuseummatt/DrMikeBaxter/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) More ...

According to researchers who recently analyzed famous cave paintings in France, there is another adjective that should be associated with Neanderthals — artistically inclined. Indeed, as the scholars ...