A new DNA analysis of a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin is making experts rethink what they know about early humans. In 2015, researchers discovered the remains of the short-statured Thorin in a cave ...
Archaeologists and geneticists had been locked in disagreement for several years about the remains of a Neanderthal named Thorin, after one of the dwarfs from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern Iberia. Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the ...
Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago ...
In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...