In a nutshell Scientists have discovered that Neanderthals not only survived but thrived during one of Earth’s harshest cold ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ... For example, peaks in atmospheric radiocarbon production during this time result in a large degree of uncertainty in ...

“The results point to a mosaic pattern of Neanderthal extinction in Europe and provide a shorter time frame for the potential interaction of humans with Neanderthals,” said study author Ron Pinhasi, a ...

The study determined that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred ... and some groups may have continued mixing for a longer period of time,” he said. Another significant finding involves ...

A new study concludes that modern humans arrived in Europe much earlier than previously believed, and that they may have overlapped with Neanderthals ...

At the same time, researchers for the Nature ... it was concluded that early humans and Neanderthals reached their peak interbreeding period around 47,000 years ago. The height of this ...

But there’s also a shorter timeline that tells the story of the researchers themselves, their discoveries, and the way their theories about them change over time. The first Neanderthal skull ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone ... Diachronic: Refers to changes through time. Handaxes: Large, pointed, bifacially flaked core-tools. Handaxes and cleavers ...

The birch-tar handled tool made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago Traces of ancient "glue" on a stone tool from 50,000 years ago points to complex thinking by Neanderthals, experts say. The glue ...