A cave in the Dordogne George Grant MacCurdy led the five year project at Abri des Merveilles. Between 1924 and 1929, his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of stone tools at the Longtan site in China's Yunnan province suggests the region may once have been home to ...

Learn how animal bones and stone tools are helping archaeologists reconstruct Neanderthal camp life in northern Spain.

Learn how archaeologists discovered that Ice Age rhino teeth may have been used by Neanderthals to shape, sharpen, and repair stone tools. Stone tools, animal bones, and sharpened antlers are all ...

The tools discovered belong to the Mousterian stone tools tradition associated with the Neanderthals of Europe. Their presence may help identify the locations where people have been chipping flint, ...

Archaeologists in Spain uncovered ancient tools that reveal how some of Aragón’s last Neanderthals lived, traveled and used local resources.

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 ...

A cave in northern Spain was repeatedly occupied by the last Neanderthals to cling on to existence in Iberia, who returned to ...

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at ...

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site in France’s Rhône Valley. The study of fossil rhinoceros teeth from this ...

An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic ...