It’s the first time such a discovery has been made in the region. Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years.

A new discovery in China is challenging long-held beliefs about human evolution in East Asia. Archaeologists have unearthed advanced stone tools once thought to be unique to Neanderthals in Europe, in ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The Quina method of ...

“They were believed to be scavengers who made primitive tools and were incapable of language or symbolic thought.”Now, he says, researchers believe that Neanderthals “were highly intelligent, able to ...

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 ...

The discovery of animal skulls in Des-Cubierta Cave challenges the belief that Neanderthals acted solely out of ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

Scientists reveal the genetic mutation that forever changed the final chapter of the Neanderthals' history in Europe.