Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

May the history of human origins have a missing chapter? A 140,000-year-old skull of a child from Israel, hitherto relegated to a taxonomic conundrum, has been reconstructed virtually with an accuracy ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

Around 140,000 years ago, a Neanderthal and a modern human got it on. We know nothing about the situation that led to this interaction. We don’t know which parent came from which species, but we do ...

The Gibraltar National Museum will mark 100 years since the discovery in 1926 of the Neanderthal child skull now known as Flint with a year-long programme of events, new displays, publications and a ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial site belonged to a child between 3 and 5 years old, most likely a girl. Using high-resolution scans of the child’s cranium and jaw, scientists now ...