In a Slovenian cave near the Idrijca River, archaeologists unearthed a strange artifact in 1995: a fragment of bone, about the length of a finger, punctured with round holes and charred by ancient ...

Bone cut-marks suggest Neanderthals had distinct food traditions—possibly even early “family recipes.” A new study from the ...

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Archaeologist Anaëlle Jallon of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her colleagues examined dozens of animal bones from both ...

Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

Worldwide, the oldest known artifact of this type is a bone knife that was manufactured by modern humans in Morocco around 90,000 years ago. The revelation that Neanderthals were also working with ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands of years of history. In a new discovery about this mysterious yet often ...

Neanderthals had selected the longest bones that would have contained the most marrow, the study found. An AI generated impression of what the fat factory site may have looked like 125,000 years ago.

Archaeology Human Evolution Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced ...

Neanderthals boiled bones in ‘fat factories’ to enrich their lean diet Germany digs reveal a large-scale operation 100,000 years earlier than oldest known fat rendering by modern humans.