Around 60,000 years ago, interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens passed gene variants into some modern human ...

The violent lives of Neanderthals are on display in 75,000-year-old remains showing a fatal spear wound alongside evidence of healed trauma.

The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in ...

Stone tools discovered on Crete in 2010 were dated to at least 130,000 years ago, though unclear soil layers left their age ...

A Cambridge-led team reported a fatal perforation on 75,000-year-old Neanderthal Shanidar A’s shoulder in Scientific Reports.

A Neanderthal who lived around 75,000 years ago survived a serious facial injury for at least a year before suffering what ...

A perfectly round hole in a shoulder blade from Shanidar Cave in Iraq matches a wooden spear driven through the chest, and the same Neanderthal had survived a b ...

The ventral (left) and dorsal (right) views of the Shanidar A scapula with the hole through it. Ventral is the front of the ...

The Neanderthal spear wound at Shanidar Cave sits in the same skeleton as a healed facial injury, showing care and violence ...

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.

A 75,000-year-old skeleton offers a glimpse into the violent world in which Neanderthals lived, but also offers hints that ...

While there's no surviving sign of the spear or weapon in Shanidar Cave – which isn't unusual, given how easily wood can ...