A cave in Belgium has revealed unsettling evidence that Neanderthals selectively cannibalized outsiders, focusing on women and children. The victims weren’t from the local group and appear to have ...

Across Ice Age Europe, human movement followed narrow corridors shaped by climate, terrain, and time. Along those corridors, two human groups occupied overlapping centuries without clear records of ...

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs. Reading time 3 minutes A team’s investigation of ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...