The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Learn about the Lapedo child, an ancient human with Neanderthal features who was buried at a rock shelter in Portugal between ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals not only interacted but shared customs, suggesting that our human ancestors had a far more complex social network of connections than previously understood. Hailed as a ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

These findings came from an excavation led by Israeli researchers from Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and other ...

As social interactions intensified around an unbelievable 110,000 years ago, they began developing formal burial customs. They found ochre pigment, and though they weren't the first, they ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered to between 27,700 and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The remains of the Lapedo ...