Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture.The unprecedented discovery at Longtan had "significant implications ...

This period is also associated with the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa and the evolution of archaic humans like Neanderthals and Denisovans. Researchers discovered a distinctive Quina stone ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Chimp and Neanderthal faces grow beyond adolescence, which explains their more rugged features. Credit: AI-generated image by ChatGPT 4o. Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people ...

The Levant region of the Middle East has long been recognized as a mixing pot of early humans and Neanderthals, some local and some on their way to and from other geographical regions. The many ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation. The first published study on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and ...

"Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer, human facial growth stops earlier, around adolescence, resulting in a smaller adult face." The study is published in the ...