Did you know that the cavemen characters we see in cartoons and movies are based on early humans that lived thousands of years ago? Learn interesting facts about how Neanderthals lived and got the nickname 'cavemen' in this lesson. Related...
How did Homo habilis hunt? Did Homo erectus and Neanderthals coexist? How did Homo habilis differ from earlier australopithecines? Did Homo erectus or Homo habilis live in Africa? When did the australopithecines go extinct? Did Homo habilis fight with Homo erectus?
The world's oldest known glue was made by Neanderthals. But how did they make it 200,000 years ago? Leiden archaeologists have discovered three possible ways. The study is published inScientific Reports. A Neanderthal spear is predominantly made up of two parts, a piece of flint for the poi...
Cavemen (along with cavewomen and cave children) did exist, although perhaps not in the Hollywood mold. Early humans and humanlike species used caves for shelter, and the little we know about them comes from what they left behind in those very dwellings. Scientists have long debated the role...
That of course is merely my opinion, and not advice. In fact, nothing in this Paleo diet article should be construed to be advice. Personally, I would advise against anyone offering advice, if doing so were not clearly illegal, at least according to the North Carolina Board of Neanderthals...
Dogs and humans have a long shared history, but how alike are we really? When the structure of DNA was discovered and we gained the ability to sequence both human and animal genomes, it was no great surprise to learn that we had a lot in common with our animal friends. Humans and anim...
After the superarchaic humans came the archaic ones: Neanderthals, Denisovans and other human groups that no longer exist. Archaeologists have known about Neanderthals, or Homo neanderthalensis, since the 19th century, but only discovered Denisovans in 2008 (the group is so new it doesn’t have ...
“wise person”), came to dominate the Earth and what may lie ahead for our species.Most humans assume that we were always the ones in charge, lording over the rest of the animals. But Harari reminds us that long before we built the pyramids, wrote symphonies, or walked on the moon, ...
Despite its curious look, Elastmotherium is actually one of the more recent animals on this list, and it's possible that it didn't go extinct until some 39,000 years ago — roughly the same time as the Neanderthals did. Its threatening look likely belied a reasonably peaceful herbivore tha...
How long did Neanderthals live? How many Homo sapiens were there 10,000 years ago? When was Homo habilis discovered? How many years ago did the first hominids appear? When did Homo habilis exist? Are Homo sapiens or Neanderthals older? What era did Neanderthals live in? What did Homo habi...