We've all believed things about Cro-Magnons, early European humans, that aren't true. For decades, ideas about how they lived, thought, and interacted have been full of mistakes. History and pop ...

The Cro-Magnon name began after five early modern human skeletons were discovered in a French rock shelter in 1868 and were treated as distinct from Neanderthals and living humans. Early anthropology ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought. Karen Carr 1n 1856, laborers working in a ...

Neanderthals shared many features with their ancestors—a prominent brow, weak chin, sloping skull and large nose—but were as big-brained as the anatomically modern humans that later colonized Europe, ...