The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens ... lifestyles, and burial ...

Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

From pollen found in one of the Shanidar graves, Solecki hypothesized that flowers had been buried with the Neanderthal dead—until then, such burials had been associated only with Cro-Magnons ...

Cast of a Neanderthal burial in Kebara Cave, Israel, from around 60,000 years ago. The position of the upper limbs suggests the body was deposited in the grave before rigor mortis set in. The head is ...

Research published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity documents the latest findings at the Shanidar Cave, adding to modern understanding of the rare Neanderthal flower burial. Famed archaeologist Ralph ...

Paleoanthropologists generally agree that Neanderthals lived in groups of 10 to 15, counting children. That assessment is based on a few lines of evidence, including the limited remains at burial ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Our closest extinct relatives, Neanderthals, existed thousands of years ago. Here are 10 interesting facts about their lives, brains, and survival. Neanderthals existed in Europe and Asia from ...

If these burials were not isolated acts but part ... Even at sites like Nesher Ramla, where the fossils resemble Neanderthals more than modern humans, the cultural artifacts—especially the ...