Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

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

Learn about the Lapedo child, an ancient human with Neanderthal features who was buried at a rock shelter in Portugal between ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

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

Seafood was part of an early Neanderthal diet. Spanish archaeologists found stone tools that were used to crack mollusk ...

Archaeologists find evidence of Neanderthal habitation dating back 40,000 to 80,000 in Iran's western province of Lorestan.

New research has found that the skeleton of a child with both Neanderthal and modern human traits has been dated […] ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries ...

The new date for the child is consistent with original estimates for the age of the burial, but it has changed our ...