He is reconstructed from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from Paviland in Wales (the famous ... was happy to inform the creation of the reconstruction. 'The models are based on the very best scientific ...

Two teams using different methods both conclude that humans and Neanderthals had children together starting roughly 50,000 ...

Researchers have described the first "articulated" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade. An articulated skeleton is one where the bones are still arranged in their original positions.

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Being stocky can have its advantages, especially when it comes to hunting prehistoric game. According to a new reconstruction ...

The skeleton of a boy that shattered our view of Neanderthal brain development A new study shows that Neanderthal brains developed more slowly than ours. An analysis of a Neanderthal child's ...

Expert palaeoartists then created the 3D model. The representation ... Pollen throughout one skeleton led some to argue these Neanderthals might have been interred with flowers, suggestive perhaps ...

A. The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Mellars, P. A. The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for ...

Boule had got his hands on the skeleton of a male Neanderthal called "La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1" or "The Old Man", which he ...

The researchers looked for distinct skeleton positions, grave goods or markers, and evidence of digging to come to their conclusions. They found that both Neanderthals and H. sapiens would bury ...

The Neanderthal skull and jawbone (above, at left) belong to the so-called "Old Man" of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a nearly complete skeleton found inside a cave in southwestern France in 1908.