Music has always been a fundamental component of human culture, and perhaps it could even precede the birth of Homo ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

The find itself dates to between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago. It was a time when Neanderthals roamed a still-cooling Europe. Meanwhile, Homo sapiens were tens of thousands of years from arriving in ...

His genome diverged from those of other late Neanderthals around 105,000 years ago. That’s a staggering timespan. Thorin’s ...

Archaeologists discovered a bone spearhead approximately 80,000 years old, identified as the oldest bone spearhead in Europe ...

An international team of scientists has found a bone spear tip dating back between 80,000 and 70,000 years in the Mezmaiskaya cave, in the North Caucasus (Russia). What’s extraordinary about the ...

The finding also raises another question: Why is it so unique? If Neanderthals were using bone spear tips to bring down prey, why are there not a lot of them left for modern researchers to find?

Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago, according to a study published in the ...

“I began to find {remnants of the Neanderthal's jaw} in 2015,” Slimak told the New Statesman in 2022, “but each year we find one tooth, or one fragment of bone.” Slimak determined that ...

The “unique pointy bone” was found in a Neanderthal cave in southwestern Russia. Golovanova, L. V., et al (2025) Journal of Archaeological Science What are we learning about the past?