Ancient footprints found near the shores of Portugal's Algarve region are giving us fresh insights into the lives of ...

Animal footprints were also uncovered, including from deer, which suggests that Neanderthals used the area for hunting.

An international team of scientists has discovered the first Neanderthal footprints on the southwestern coast of Portugal, at ...

P rehistoric footprints found at the southwestern tip of mainland Europe show how Neanderthal families worked together to ambush prey on the beach. Dated to around 80,000 years ago, the trackways were ...

Neanderthal families spent days at the beach new research shows. Archaeologists have uncovered remarkable evidence that ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked the earth before being overshadowed by modern humans. These ancient ...

Scientists from the Gibraltar National Museum have contributed to a new international study that sheds light on the close ...

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of symbolic art.

A red dot, a 43,000 year old fingerprint, and a stone out of place—potential evidence of Neanderthal pareidolia. by Justin Jackson, Phys.org ...

This isn’t the first time a Neanderthal fingerprint has been pinpointed, the authors noted. A partial one, likely made by a thumb, was found on resin discovered in Germany in 1963.

Neanderthals, a distinct species that went extinct around 40,000 years ago, lived alongside early modern humans in Europe, Asia and the Middle East for at least part of their existence ...

Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and communal caregiving that likely helped the child survive to the age of 6 ...