One of the more enduring mysteries about Neanderthals is whether they had a spoken language, a trait that’s impossible to ...

Led by Joshua Akey, a professor at Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the researchers have ...

Some 120,000 years ago, in the dry, rugged hills of the Levant, something extraordinary began to happen. Deep inside caves, ...

Indeed, genetic research shows that many humans have up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. In fact, while scientists once believed that ...

Further excavations may reveal how ancient human populations likely interacted with each other, researchers say ...

However, Neanderthals tended to bury their dead deeper in caves, whereas H. sapiens were buried in cave entrances or rock ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens. The Zeravshan River is part of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC). Already a hotspot ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

A resurgence of interest in our ancient relatives is captivating audiences worldwide, and a German museum is at the forefront ...