
Rehabilitating the Neanderthals
He told us that he was a speleologist, whose girlfriend had just left him. He was in a very sorry state of distress.

He told us that he was a speleologist, whose girlfriend had just left him. He was in a very sorry state of distress.

A set of marks in a cave in central France may be the earliest example of Neanderthal cave-wall engravings found to date. Tens of thousands of years ago, the entrance of La Roche-Cotard cave, which sits on the north bank…

Recent analysis of 12 teeth, first excavated at the Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey between 1910 and 1911, may provide new evidence of cross-breeding between Neanderthals and modern humans in this region. The teeth were…