Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In 2021, Hershkovitz was part of a team that studied roughly 120,000-year-old hominin bones that they found were not quite Homo sapiens—but not quite Neanderthal, either. The archaic hominin ...

At the time, scientists noted that some of the humanlike child’s attributes — including body proportions and jawbone — looked Neanderthal ... of a protein that's found primarily in human ...