Researchers have re-analysed a set of elephant bones and a wooden spear found in Germany in 1948, which provide compelling ...

New findings show that they systematically managed resources and reveal what they hunted, something even scientists did not expect.

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

Hunting neanderthals drove European straight-tusked elephants over hundreds of kilometres across Ice Age Eruope. These ...

A new study shows Neanderthals may have planned hunts for giant elephants using teamwork and knowledge of their environment.

The study's findings indicate that these giant elephants were not stationary creatures. Strontium isotope analyses, which act as a "travel diary" preserved in tooth enamel, showed that some ...

Neanderthals are reexamined through evidence that challenges long-standing myths about intelligence, posture, speech, empathy ...

If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000 years ago, even a small cut could be deadly. Without sterile bandages or antibiotics, ...

65,000 years ago Neanderthal from the Swabian Jura hunted horses and reindeer with hafted leaf-shaped stone points. A newly discovered leaf point from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hohle Fels Cave ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...