Archaeologists uncovered a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute that offers the oldest known glimpse into prehistoric music. This discovery challenges ideas about Neanderthal culture and creativity.

The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia. The new study ...

Neanderthal extinction: A space physicist reopens the debate by José-Miguel Tejero, Montserrat Sanz Borràs, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

From Mozart and Dostoyevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of ...

Researchers didn’t see the Neanderthal art until the 1970s. Now, it’s taken another several decades to accurately determine when those drawings were probably made.

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern Eurasia between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But the routes they took ...

Human History Neanderthals Spread Across Asia With Surprising Speed—and Now We Know How A new study suggests our prehistoric cousins likely traveled through the Ural Mountains and southern Siberia.

And this isn’t the first time Neanderthal genetic variants have been identified as a considerable risk factor for a disease: In 2020, Zeberg co-authored a groundbreaking study in the journal ...

With minimal Neanderthal archaeological sites connecting Eastern Europe and Eurasia, it had long been a mystery as to how Neanderthals traveled between the two regions between 120,000 years and 60,000 ...

But let’s get to the flute, and Trump’s early efforts to blow hard. “I played, for very short periods of time, the flute. Could you believe that?” Trump said. No. But I want to so badly.