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Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

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Baked soil, ancient tools and materials that could be used to start fires show that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago — the earliest evidence of this skill found so far.

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its inhabitants bringing iron pyrite to the area specifically to enable them to light ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

As Neanderthals had dominated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years, the arrival of Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago marked the beginning of their sudden disappearance. The causes of this extinction ...

400 thousand years ago our early human cousins dropped a lighter in a field in the East of England; evidence that was uncovered this week and suggests that early neanderthals might have made fire 350 ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists found that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes – which lived ...

Neanderthals were selectively targeted for cannibalism in Ice Age Europe, study reveals - study Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day ...