Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals, has long intrigued ...

The tools, crafted using Quina method – a technique used by Neanderthals – have been found an archaeological site in ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The ochre-stained skeleton of the roughly 4- or 5-year ... it began the process of understanding the interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals and how ancient Neanderthal DNA has then survived ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...