Some of the last of the Neanderthals lived in Sussex ... on the verge of extinction. "The tools we've found at the site are technologically advanced and potentially older than tools in Britain ...

Neanderthals ... tools, and hunted animals with weapons. They may even have spoken a rudimentary language. But for 60 years experts have believed Homo sapiens were more intellectually advanced ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

These tools, dating back to the Middle Paleolithic period, show traces of a bitumen and ochre mix, revealing a hitherto unsuspected tool-making technology in Neanderthals. The stone tool was attached ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

Archaeologists have cooked and prepared five wild birds using only fire, their hands and stone tools to learn more about the ...

The find sheds important new light on the earliest use of fire, and it reveals how sophisticated Neanderthal technology was. The tools ... fire-handling skills advanced or a hint that fire ...

Neanderthals are better known for using stone tools, and many archeologists have believed that more advanced bone tool ... developing on their own a technology previously associated only with ...

Researchers have found what they say are specialized bone tools made by Neanderthals in Europe thousands ... modern man's distant cousins were more advanced than previously believed.

Archaeologists have discovered a cache of 58 wooden tools used by Neanderthals ... get a really good handle on what the non-stone technology of Neanderthals really entailed," Michelle Langley ...

Along with the bone tools, jewelry ... note in their paper that “the production technology of bone-tipped hunting weapons used by Neanderthals was in the nascent level in comparison to those ...

This could explain the apparent non-adoption of throwing devices by Neanderthals ... Yet when the team experimented with a more advanced technology known to have been used during the last ice ...