The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered, because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. The child’s remains were ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

Incredibly, 28,000 years later, the burial would prove that our ancestors hooked up with Neanderthals.

Neanderthal genetic diversity dropped 110,000 years ago CT scans of inner ear bones show a major bottleneck event Reduced diversity may have weakened their survival chances ...

For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted ...

Sealed in a cave for tens of thousands of years, long before modern humans, us homo sapiens, arrived in Europe, Neanderthals ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, ...