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10 fascinating discoveries about Neanderthals in 2024, from 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal to an ancient glue factoryThis year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.
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Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the same species?Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.
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Rock found by a 6-year-old on a beach is actually a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal axThe 6-year-old boy found the rock and then didn't tell anyone for three years. But a new examination reveals it was made by some of the last Neanderthals.
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65,000-year-old hearth in Gibraltar may have been a Neanderthal 'glue factory,' study findsNeanderthals may have used specialized hearths to make tar around 65,000 years ago, a new study finds.
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150,000-year-old rock-shelter in Tajikistan found on 'key route for human expansion' used by Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and DenisovansA newfound rock-shelter in Tajikistan has artifacts created by ancient humans spanning 130,000 years.
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Neanderthals and modern humans interbred 'at the crossroads of human migrations' in Iran, study findsA new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before going their separate ways 80,000 years ago.
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Did Neanderthals wear clothes?Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?
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Who was the last Neanderthal?We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern Iberia.
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Did we kill the Neanderthals? New research may finally answer an age-old question.
Feature A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.
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