Smart Neanderthals Made Tools Using Glue, Study Finds
A trove of Neanderthal tools made between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago were forged with glue, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the objects. What Drew Noomi…
Glued Blades Are the Oldest Ever Found in Europe—and They Weren’t Made by Us
A trove of Neanderthal tools made between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago were forged with glue, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the objects. Dave Bautista Opens…
Stone Age Megastructure Found at the Bottom of the Baltic Sea
Divers working off the coast of Rostock, Germany, have found the broken-up remains of a wall on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Researchers believe the Stone Age construction is…
The Best Archaeological Discoveries of 2023
Image: SN Saleem, SA Seddik, M el-Halwagy A group of scientists CT-scanned the sarcophagus of a 2,300-year-old mummified boy. Their work revealed details of the “golden” boy’s health before he…
Neanderthal Genes Could Explain Why Some of Us Are Morning People
If you’re irritated by the morning people in your life, you might have Neanderthals to blame for their existence, at least a little bit. New research suggests that our hominin…
Neanderthals Likely Killed and Butchered Cave Lions, Speared Skeleton Suggests
Marks on the ribcage of a 48,000-year-old cave lion skeleton suggest the animal was killed by Neanderthals, making it the first evidence that our nearest human cousins hunted the Ice…
57,000-Year-Old Cave Engravings Were the Work of Neanderthals, Researchers Say
It’s now consensus that Neanderthals were complex, social cousins of Homo sapiens that disappeared from the Earth around 40,000 years ago. But our lost relatives just became more complex, with…