Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While identifying ...

Remains found near the Arctic Circle characteristic of Mousterian culture have recently been dated at over 28,500 years old, which is more than 8,000 years after Neanderthals are thought to have ...

THE cave and rock-shelter sites of south-western France have produced an exceptional wealth of cultural remains dating from the earlier part of the last glaciation. Much of the interest of these ...

Rachel Wood receives funding from NERC (UK), Ian Potter Foundation. A new study has dated the final days of the Neanderthals and found they lived at the same time as the earliest modern humans in ...

Chinese archaeologists say they have uncovered strong evidence that Stone Age people in southern East Asia were at least as technologically advanced as their European cousins -- challenging the ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...