Neanderthals News

A genetics professor at Harvard University says scientists have developed the technology to clone long extinct Neanderthals. He says the only obstacles are laws prohibiting cloning and finding a human female who is willing to carry the baby.

New evidence in the longstanding debate over what caused extinction of Neanderthals suggests that competition with early members of modern human species who migrated from Africa and not major climate changes caused extinction of Neanderthals.

Spain has some of the most ancient cave paintings in the world with three sites in particular recognised as World Heritage sites for the antiquity of the paintings.

For many years, Neanderthal people were falsely portrayed as brutish and primitive ape-men, but with every new science discovery, anthropologists learn that Neanderthals were completely human.

For many years, Darwinian science illustrators depicted early humans as apelike and primitive. However, as paleo-anthropologists discover more information, their evidence points toward more advanced prehistoric human populations.

Moldova - Researchers have discovered a 44,000-year-old Neanderthal house in eastern Ukraine. The house is made from mammoth bones. This finding contradicts the widely held view that Neanderthals were primitive nomads who took shelter in the nearest cave.

A new study supports the hypothesis that interbreeding with modern humans contributed significantly to the disappearance of the Neanderthals.

A study led by University of Arizona (UA) researchers found evidence archaic forms of the genus Homo, such as Homo erectus ("upright man") and Homo habilis ("tool using man"), and Homo sapiens interbred before any modern human migrations out of Africa.

Neanderthals became extinct about 30,000 years ago, a study suggests that it may well be us humans who wiped them out.

Maybe Neanderthals weren't so different from modern man. New discoveries point to towards early man and makeup. Francesco d'Errico from the University of Bordeaux has found lumps of pigments left behind Neanderthals across Europe.