The discovery of ancient clay beads made by children and adults thousands of years before the use of pottery suggests a ritualistic purpose ...

Experiments show Neanderthals extracted birch tar and used it for several applications, including its antibiotic wound healing properties ...

Tar made from birch tree bark is commonly found at Neanderthal sites, and experiments show that it kills some bacteria that cause skin infections ...

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Birch tar was among the most useful materials available to prehistoric humans and was primarily used as a glue to bind stone blades onto wooden handles or arrowheads onto shafts. However, we now have ...

Deep within Spain's El Sidrón Cave in Asturias, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Neanderthal family massacred over 49,000 years ago. Join paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi and Professor ...

Archaeologists are used to slow, careful discoveries. Most digs reveal fragments, small pieces that tell only part of the ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

A cave that remained closed for nearly 40,000 years has just been explored in Gibraltar. This exceptional discovery could shed light on the final moments of Neanderthal presence in Europe.

Scientists discovered a 125,000-year-old Neanderthal site in Germany where thousands of animal bones were crushed to extract fat, revealing surprisingly advanced survival strategies.

Genomic analysis of three Neanderthals shows unusually high modern human DNA on the X chromosome offering clues about ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...