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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of ...

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