The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

In a recent paper published in Nature, researchers describe how Neanderthals in Europe ate — revealing what the original version of the "paleo diet" was actually like. Turns out, the paleo diet ...

However, food remains preserved in the calculus (hardened tartar) around their teeth show that the Neanderthal diet also included various plants, either collected directly or from eating the stomach ...

Seafood was part of an early Neanderthal diet. Spanish archaeologists found stone tools that were used to crack mollusk ...

Neanderthals emerged around 250.000 years ago from European populations—referred to as "pre-Neanderthals"—which inhabited the Eurasian continent between 500.000 and 250.000 years ago. It was ...

Nitrogen and carbon isotope studies also support a Neanderthal diet focused on meat. Collagen obtained directly from at least a dozen Neanderthal bones from sites in France, Belgium, and Croatia ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London. (Credit: Photo: Allan Henderson under CC BY 2.0) Ears are incredible things. They help us process sound ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic ...