Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to ...

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...

At the time, scientists noted that some of the humanlike child’s attributes — including body proportions and jawbone — looked Neanderthal and suggested that the child was descended ... they were able ...

The fresh dating timeline puts the remains roughly 40,000 years beyond Neanderthal ... rabbit bones found on top of the child, deer bones near the remains, and charcoal under the body—to ...

Scientists first discovered the cave in 1940, and new excavations there unearthed five burials belonging to Homo — the first such burials from the mid-Middle Paleolithic found in this region in more ...

AP When the humanlike child was discovered, scientists noted that some of their attributes — including body proportions and jawbone — looked Neanderthal ... that’s found primarily in ...

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of ...

The fresh dating timeline puts the remains roughly 40,000 years beyond Neanderthal ... rabbit bones found on top of the child, deer bones near the remains, and charcoal under the body—to ...

The ochre-stained skeleton of the roughly 4- or 5-year-old child—experts believe the body was wrapped in a painted animal skin for burial in the Lagar Velho rock shelter—when found “exhibited a mosaic ...