According to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal bone carving may be one of the oldest art pieces ever found in Eurasia. In 1953 ...

Traces of the viruses were detected in ancient Neanderthal bones. The findings are the first step toward figuring out whether infectious diseases contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals.

Collagen obtained directly from at least a dozen Neanderthal bones from sites in France, Belgium, and Croatia reveal that Neanderthals were top-level carnivores who obtained most of their dietary ...

Tom Higham, an archaeological dating expert at the University of Oxford in the U.K., along with Pinhasi and an international team of colleagues, dated almost 200 Neanderthal bone, charcoal, and tool ...