For decades, the Schoningen spears held pride of place as the world's oldest hunting weapons. Eight wooden javelins, pulled from an ancient lakeshore in northern Germany during the 1990s, seemed to ...

Neanderthals have been imagined as the inferior cousins of modern humans, but a new study by archaeologists at UCL reveals for the first time that they produced weaponry advanced enough to kill at a ...

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Neanderthals used advanced hunting techniques to kill prey, a new study says. Prehistoric deer bones show animals were killed with sharp wooden spears. Scientists say the stabs were from below, ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

Homo heidelbergensis is widely presented as the most likely last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. First ...

In the backrooms of the sleek, modern Schöningen Research Museum in Germany, there are piles of old, mismatched cardboard boxes everywhere. These are the finds boxes from Lehringen, a hamlet 150 ...