When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

Ancestral Skills, Modern Traits Interestingly, these genetic traits align closely with Neanderthal behaviors. Archaeologists studying Neanderthal stone tool-making note that their Levallois technique ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces with broad noses and massive cheekbones, features often described as ...

Of the 10 burials, each person possessed a different combination of H. sapiens and Neanderthal traits, Hershkovitz said. While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil ...