A 42,000-year-old ochre “crayon” found in Ukraine may prove that Neanderthals were artists.

Altay Prefecture, located in the northwest frontier of China, sits in the northeast part of Ili Kazak autonomous prefecture in the north of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. It borders Mongolia to the ...

For much of the 20th century, Neanderthals were cast as primitive hunters—robust, spear-wielding hominins whose survival ...