#Neanderthals

Scientists found evidence that our ancient relatives butchered beavers and marmots for food roughly 130,000 years ago. Yes, actual beavers.

A Neanderthal tooth discovered in Siberia suggests ancient humans may have performed complex dental procedures long before modern civilisation.

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise dental procedure.

From Latest articles | smithsonianmag.com: Did Homo Sapiens Really Outsmart Neanderthals? Different Skull Shapes Didn’t Necessarily Mean Unequal Brain Capacity, New Research Shows

From Theguardian RSS Feed: Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggests

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar contains evidence of a cavity removal procedure, offering fresh insight into these early humans' intelligence.

A molar points to some sophisticated dental work performed by our extinct cousins.

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and us.

Now that we’ve recently learned Neanderthals may have been just as intelligent as Homo sapiens, it suddenly makes a lot of sense that a new study found they were carrying around sophisticated tool kits, including tools made from rhinoceros teeth.…

From Vice RSS Feed: Researchers Think They Figured Out Why Neanderthals Went Extinct, and It’s the Wildest Theory Yet

From Dev.to - webdev: Uncovering the Ancient Origins of Obesity: Neanderthals' Surprising "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago

Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities.…

A new study suggests the supposed cognitive gap between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been wildly overstated.

From Reddit - r/anthropology: Mitochondrial DNA Links Neanderthals in Poland’s Stajnia Cave

A new study from University of Iowa Health Care reports that a narrow slice of the genome, less than 0.1% of all human DNA, has a strikingly large effect on language ability.

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary cousins mysteriously disappeared.

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed stronger, more flexible networks that helped them…

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were descended from the same lineage and had very similar DNA

A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, teamwork and a calculated kill.

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” living together 100,000 years ago in what is now Poland.…