Yet there were nuances. Neanderthals preferred burials deep in caves. And they often laid their dead in a variety of ...

Finding a number of the sites date earlier than other Neanderthal burials in Europe and Homo sapiens burials in Africa, the study suggests this is where the practice of burying the dead first began.

Part of a Neanderthal upper body skeleton was unearthed from the Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan, the first such discovery in more than 25 years, report the authors of a study published on February ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

By comparison, incision marks on artifacts from the nearby Amud cave - where Neanderthal burials have been uncovered - appear “shallower, with no clear orientation or patterning.” Such ...

It was when the cave was being used as an ammunition dump during the war that archaeologists found the bones and teeth of Neanderthal ... This ancient burial chamber dates back 6,000 years ...