Most known prehistoric art is linked to Homo sapiens, which is why for a long time archaeologists have believed that modern ...

Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a ...

N eanderthals managed to survive in Eurasia until around 40,000 years ago, but research indicates their population began ...

Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

Researchers in Spain say they have found evidence that Neanderthals were capable of creating art — challenging the idea that ...

Ochre mark is thought to be oldest complete fingerprint ever found and may suggest Neanderthals were capable of abstract ...