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Neanderthals carried travel toolkits when they went bear hunting
New analysis of tools found in an Alpine cave suggests Neanderthals weren't just making tools wherever they happened to be - ...
In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...
When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of ...
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Thorin’s Neanderthal genome shows Europe held separate lineages side by side
How can two Neanderthal communities live within ten days’ walk and still remain strangers for 50,000 years? In the Rhone Valley, the rock shelter of Grotte Mandrin, there is a partial set of ...
For a long time, the Neanderthals were regarded as functional, survival-minded humans who possessed the capabilities of ...
"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton. Scientists have ...
To read about tools found in the Swiss Alps that hunter-gatherers made more than 8,000 years ago, go to " Alpine Crystal Hunters ." ...
65,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘tar factory’ found in Gibraltar cave A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Vanguard Cave, ...
Neanderthals painted on cave walls in Spain 65,000 years ago – tens of thousands of years before modern humans arrived, say researchers ...
2026 marks one hundred years since the excavation of the second Neanderthal skull in Gibraltar. In 1926 Dorothy Garrod found the skull belonging to a four-year-old Neanderthal boy, now known as Flint.
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