The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...

Research suggests Neanderthals likely had a wide range of skin and hair pigmentation rather than one fixed appearance. Some ...

When I was young, all Neanderthal depictions were of these very light skinned cave dwelling brutes, but did they really have such white skin, or did they also have a darker complexion? When we look at ...

Ancient shells from Spain reveal Neanderthals harvested shellfish during the safest and most nutritious seasons 115,000 years ...

A new study of 250,000-year-old fossil teeth from France suggests climate shifts repeatedly isolated and reconnected ...

No one likes having their teeth drilled at the dentist. But hey, it could be worse. You could be a Neanderthal performing surgery on your own rotting molar with nothing but a shard of rock. That’s the ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

In a study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography wrote that the single tooth —which was found in the Chagyrskaya Cave and had a ...

In a cave in Cartagena, Spain, limpet shells and snails were found, collected in the same way modern humans would have done ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern humans. To test their theory that Neanderthals performed dentistry on this ...