Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed like they’d been feasting on as much meat as apex predators such as lions and hyenas. But as a group, hominins – that’s Neanderthals, our ...

We suspect the high δ¹⁵N values seen in Neanderthals reflect routine consumption of fatty animal tissues and fermented ...

Archaeologists working at the Tinshemet Cave in Israel believe they’ve discovered one of the world’s oldest human burial ...

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years. It ...

Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled ...

New research highlights the prevalence of maggots as an easily obtained, nutrient-rich supplement of ancient hominin diets.

It has been claimed Neanderthals ate a huge amount of meat based on isotope ratios in their bones – but the explanation could ...

The team found that while the skull's structure aligned with Homo sapiens, the jaw displayed Neanderthal traits. This ...

A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...