All Articles Tagged As: neanderthals

Last Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago (1/28/2010)

The last Neanderthals in Europe died out at least 37,000 years ago -- and both climate change and interaction with modern humans could be involved in their demise, according to new research from the University of Bristol published today in PLoS ONE. ...> Full Article

Use of body ornamentation shows Neanderthal mind capable of advanced thought (1/12/2010)

The widespread view of Neanderthals as cognitively inferior to early modern humans is challenged by new research from the University of Bristol published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article

Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction (12/30/2008)

In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change. The study was published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. ...> Full Article

New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth (8/27/2008)

Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens) ...> Full Article

Britain's last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought (6/25/2008)

An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe's last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population - rather than communities on the verge of extinction. ...> Full Article

Neandertal's prehistoric diet may have lacked a crucial element (4/1/2008)

One of the most mysterious creatures that ever walked the earth was Neandertal, a prehistoric human-like being who first appeared about 230,000 years ago in Europe. Scientists have been debating since the first remains were found in 1856: Was he one of us or a separate species? ...> Full Article

Researchers find oldest European human fossil (3/31/2008)

Scientists classify fossil as last known ancestor of humans and Neanderthals ...> Full Article

Natural Selection and the Human Skull (3/19/2008)

New research adds to the evidence that chance, rather than natural selection, best explains why the skulls of modern humans and ancient Neanderthals evolved differently. The findings may alter how anthropologists think about human evolution. ...> Full Article

Evidence of Ice Age hunters found below North Sea (3/15/2008)

An amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. ...> Full Article

Ancient tooth provides evidence of Neanderthal movement (2/17/2008)

A 40,000-year-old tooth has provided the first direct proof that Neanderthals moved from place to place in their lifetimes. ...> Full Article

Tooth growth suggests rapid maturation in a Neanderthal Child (12/6/2007)

An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis). The report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (online edition early December), details how the team used growth lines both inside and on the surfaces of the child's teeth to reconstruct tooth formation time and its' age at death. ...> Full Article

Neanderthal-modern human hybrid not supported (12/3/2007)

Among the earliest reliably dated modern human fossils from Europe is the Cioclovina calvaria from Romania. This individual lived about 28-29 thousand years before present, and has recently been argued to represent a Neanderthal-modern human hybrid. ...> Full Article