The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its inhabitants bringing iron pyrite to the area specifically to enable them to light ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than 350,000 years earlier than previously believed. According to a British Museum-led ...

Why is swapping saliva something all human societies have normalised? Turns out kissing isn't just a human thing — all sorts of species appear to kiss, and new research suggests Neanderthals did it ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...