Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed. Credit: Gerard Campeny / IPHES-CERCA The Stone Age owes its name […]
Category: Neanderthals
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes. When the history of our ancestry is written, […]
If I had a hammer… it might actually be a rhino tooth
One way archaeologists learn how ancient people, including Neanderthals, did things is to attempt to do those things themselves, a […]
Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
Two of the teeth were museum specimens, whose age and context curators didn’t know, making them less useful for other […]
Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally
(When we talk about “intelligence,” we’re describing something complex and, frankly, sort of nebulous; it’s impossible to really quantify, but […]
Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar
Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant. This replica shows how Neanderthals might have used birch […]
Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women
By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out […]
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
The Casablanca fossils are about the same age as hominin fossils from Spain, which belong to a species called Homo […]