A 110,000-year-old archaeological site in Israel and a newly published stratigraphic sequence from a cave in the northern ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 ...

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of ...

The human brain has a remarkable capacity for discovering faces in random objects. With no prompting whatsoever, clouds, cars, clocks, and rocks can take on quirky expressions. There’s a word for the ...

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Scientists analyzed ochre tools from Ukraine and Crimea, revealing Neanderthals shaped them with artistic intent. Modified ochre fragments show signs of grinding, scoring, and deliberate design, ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent study. The pair of artifacts, unearthed from layers 47,000 and 46,000 years ...

Recent analysis of rock art in a Spanish cave has revealed that Neanderthals were creating abstract images and engravings at least 64,000 years ago, a time before modern humans had even arrived in ...

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Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have often been caricatured as the archetypal "cavemen." Questions about their ...