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A chemical signature in Neanderthal remains that suggests voracious meat eating has long puzzled researchers. Now, new ...

Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.

It has been claimed Neanderthals ate a huge amount of meat based on isotope ratios in their bones – but the explanation could ...

Maggot-infested meat likely provided Neanderthals and even some modern-day humans with a rich source of fat and nitrogen.

Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened ...

Now, an ambitious Microsoft-funded project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is studying the neural activity ...

A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers ...

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world’s oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our ...