At the Cro-Magnon rock shelter in France’s Dordogne valley, a French paleontologist discovered partial remains from five ...

Explore the fascinating story of Cro-Magnons, the first modern humans in Europe, as they emerged from Africa and confronted ...

Momentous encounters -- Neanderthal ancestors -- Neanderthals and their world -- The quiet people -- The ten thousandth grandmother -- Great mobility -- The realm of the Lion Man -- Fat, flints, and ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought. Karen Carr 1n 1856, laborers working in a ...

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at ...

“Whatever their cognitive abilities, Neanderthals were ultimately doomed,” the National Geographic article concludes. They weren’t doomed by some natural event, but by Homo sapiens, we humans, who are ...