Neanderthals have been imagined as the inferior cousins of modern humans, but a new study by archaeologists at UCL reveals for the first time that they produced weaponry advanced enough to kill at a ...

Neanderthals used advanced hunting techniques to kill prey, a new study says. Prehistoric deer bones show animals were killed with sharp wooden spears. Scientists say the stabs were from below, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden ...

In the backrooms of the sleek, modern Schöningen Research Museum in Germany, there are piles of old, mismatched cardboard boxes everywhere. These are the finds boxes from Lehringen, a hamlet 150 ...

For a long time, Neanderthals were imagined as bulky carnivores of the Ice Age: heavy-browed hunters who lived on slabs of ...