The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

This peaceful German valley is where the first Neanderthal was discovered and identified as a separate species.

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.