The discovery represents the oldest known example of invasive dental treatment, and it occurred tens of thousands of years ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a child they believe was ...

Dental microwear analysis, which allows for the microscopic study of surface textures, confirmed that the marks were made ...

For decades, many paleoarchaeologists believed Neanderthals went extinct largely because they just weren’t intelligent enough ...

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the damage.

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

Some 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal developed a toothache. What happened next was, in many ways, astonishing. This individual figured out the source of their pain, deep inside a molar. They probably ...

Around 60,000 years ago in Siberia, a Neanderthal opened their mouth so that a rotten tooth could be drilled — and the case is the oldest evidence of an intentional dental treatment to date, a new ...