The Neanderthal Arm—Hints About Handedness
Stone tools and skeletons suggest that Neanderthals were mostly right-handed.
The Neanderthal Arm—Hints About Handedness
Paleolithic
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Scientists Find First Evidence of Humans Cooking Starches
More than 100 millennia ago, people were roasting tubers over the fire, a culinary practice that fueled their bodies and may have aided their migrations.
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The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak?
The third installment of our head-to-toe tour of the Neanderthal body tackles how our close ancestors might have sounded.
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Could Mammoth Bones Reveal When Humans First Arrived in North America?
Paleontologist Dan Fisher is challenging scientific consensus about when people first came to the continent and how they may have changed the world around them.
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What One Tooth Means for Neanderthal History
A 100,000-year-old tooth found in the Pešturina Cave in Eastern Serbia bolsters evidence of Neanderthal presence in the Balkans.
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Would Our Early Ancestors Have Watched the Super Bowl?
There is an evolutionary reason why humans enjoy sitting around watching a fire, river, or television screen.