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Neanderthals

June 2024

  • An illustration of several Neanderthal women of different ages in a cave, one with her arms round two children.

    Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion

    Skull anatomy shows the boy or girl would have been severely disabled, yet survived until the age of six
  • Pembroke Castle

    Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

    Scientists hope wealth of prehistoric material in Wogan Cavern in Wales is well preserved enough to reveal what really happened to our most ancient ancestors
  • Joe Cornelius as Trog in the 1970 film of the same name

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: why do neanderthals have such a bad reputation?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

May 2024

  • A photographer takes pictures of a reconstruction of a neanderthal man at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany, in 2004

    Notes and queries
    Why do neanderthals have such a bad reputation?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

March 2024

  • A preliminary portrait of a young woman from the Denisovans

    Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’

    Researchers have found fresh evidence that may connect the mysterious Denisovans to the early human species Homo longi

December 2023

  • Smiling man with tan skin and long dark hair

    Neanderthal DNA may explain why some of us are morning people

    Scientists find genes inherited from our prehistoric cousins increase tendency to rise early – useful in regions with short winter days

November 2023

  • A model of the skull of Homo floresiensis

    Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left

    At least nine hominin species once roamed the Earth, so what became of our vanished ancestors?

October 2023

  • A model of a Neanderthal woman built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Photograph: Joe McNally/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Justice for Neanderthals! What the debate about our long-dead cousins reveals about us – podcast

    They were long derided as knuckle-draggers, but new discoveries are setting the record straight. As we rethink the nature of the Neanderthals, we could also learn something about our own humanity

September 2023

  • A model of a Neanderthal woman built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis.

    The long read
    Justice for Neanderthals! What the debate about our long-dead cousins reveals about us

  • FRANCE - LUDOVIC SLIMAK - MANDRIN CAVE - ARCHAEOLOGY<br>Malataverne, France, August 21, 2023. Ludovic Slimak, palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist at the Mandrin cave dig site in Ardèche in southern France, has studied more than a thousand Palaeolithic flints. According to him, and thanks to his research on the flints found there, Homo Ludovic Slimak sitting outside a cave with bare feet and a long beard

    ‘I feel like a man from another era’: Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak

August 2023

  • A reconstruction of a Neanderthal created for the Natural History Museum in London.

    Study casts doubt on Neanderthal ‘flower burial’ theory

  • A smiling David Attenborough in a shirt and jumper holding a gigantic mammoth bone with other bones in the foreground

    UK experts fear losing access to ice age mammoths Cotswolds site to UAE

June 2023

  • Scientists discuss the markings on the walls of a cave in La Roche-Cotard in the Loire valley.

    French cave markings said to be oldest known engravings by Neanderthals

    Hundreds of faint stripes, dots and wavy lines at Loire valley site were created more than 57,000 years ago, say scientists

May 2023

  • A reconstruction of the face of the oldest Neanderthal found in the Netherlands, nicknamed Krijn

    Revealed: modern humans needed three tries – and 12,000 years – to colonise Europe

  • An artistic interpretation of the pendant, found at the Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, which belonged to a Stone Age woman.

    Recovery of ancient DNA identifies 20,000-year-old pendant’s owner

April 2023

  • Jonathan Kennedy, author of Pathogenesis, in the pathology museum at St Bartholomew's hospital.

    ‘We’re in a golden age for microbes’: the man rewriting history from the perspective of germs

    Forget ‘great men’ – infection and disease are the really important forces in the development of humankind, believes public health specialist Jonathan Kennedy

March 2023

  • A skull of a new hominin species named Homo naledi, which was alive sometime between 335 and 236 thousand years ago.

    New analysis of ancient human protein could unlock secrets of evolution

    The technique – known as proteomics – could bring new insights into the past two million years of humanity’s history

February 2023

  • palaeontology-science-archaeology-GERMANY<br>In this undated image released by the Monrepos archaeological research centre and a museum of human behavioural evolution in Neuwied, Germany, Dr. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser examines the femur of a large adult male elephant for the presence of cut marks. - Neanderthals may have lived in larger groups than previously believed, hunting massive elephants that were up to three times bigger than those of today, according to a new study. The researchers reached their conclusions, published in the journal Science Advances on February 01, 2023, based on examinations of the 125,000-year-old skeletal remains of straight-tusked elephants found near Halle in central Germany. (Photo by Lutz Kindler / MONREPOS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / MONREPOS / Lutz Kindler" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by LUTZ KINDLER/MONREPOS /AFP via Getty Images)

    Pit find in Germany reveals how Neanderthals hunted huge elephants

    125,000-year-old bones of 70 animals – each about three times the size of today’s Asian elephants – discovered near Halle

November 2022

  • Linda Geddes prepares a Neanderthal patty in her garden

    ‘Surprisingly tasty’: putting Neanderthal cooking to the test

  • Couple, holding hands, walking along sunny beach.

    Brief letters
    My camera never lies – but it’s sometimes vague

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