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What's the difference between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens?
Neanderthals are our closest relatives who went extinct around 40,000 years ago. Here's how they differed to us.
130,000-year-old Neanderthal-carved bear bone is symbolic art, study argues
The carved bear bone is one of the earliest human-made artifacts with "symbolic culture" unearthed in Europe.
Neanderthal woman's face brought to life in stunning reconstruction
With her long, brown hair and determined gaze, the new facial reconstruction lets us peek into the world of an archaic human who lived tens of thousands of years ago.
Ancient quarries in Israel reveal where Homo erectus hunted and butchered elephants
Researchers suggest ancient quarry sites in Israel were favored because they were close to elephant migration routes.
'It haunts all our imaginations': Were Neanderthals really like us?
In this adapted extract from The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature, Ludovic Slimak examines how we should view our ancient relatives, the Neanderthals.
'Simply did not work': Mating between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been a product of failed alliances, says archaeologist Ludovic Slimak
"When two populations are close to one another but they are very distinct — maybe they can have a different language and different traditions, they are in neighboring territories — they are going to exchange their women."
1st known tuberculosis cases in Neanderthals revealed in prehistoric bone analysis
A look at two Neanderthal skeletons reveals that they could get tuberculosis, and it may have contributed to their extinction.
Did art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise big questions.
Feature Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as Neanderthals.
