A comparison of cut marks on bones reveals that Neanderthal groups living fairly close to each other had their own distinct ...

Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...

Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled ...

Learn about the first whole genome from Ancient Egypt, which has shed light on the life and ancestry of a potter who lived ...

Neanderthals from neighboring caves butchered animals in different ways — possibly revealing the world’s oldest known food traditions.

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

A new study finds that Neanderthals likely ate decomposing meat crawling with maggots — and the chemical evidence in their ...

The recent study proposes that this elevated nitrogen level may be explained not only by meat consumption but also by the ingestion of decomposing flesh and maggots.

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that early human groups shared similar burial practices, including deliberate ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented ...

Archaeologists working at the Tinshemet Cave in Israel believe they’ve discovered one of the world’s oldest human burial sites. Dated to 100,000 years ago, the site may contain a mix of both ...