Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At left, we see the reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman with a wide face and nose, big brows and dark long hair. At right, we ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought. Karen Carr 1n 1856, laborers working in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grave unearthed in 1960 led researchers to hypothesize that Neanderthals interred their dead with flowers — challenging the ...

Part of an adult Neandertal’s skeleton was found in a manner that suggests intentional burial The excavation of an adult Neandertal’s partial upper-body skeleton in Iraqi Kurdistan has revived a ...

An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Researchers have recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal after her skull was discovered during a 2018 excavation. Archaeologists and conservators from the University of Cambridge in ...

A new Netflix documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists ...

A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of our species is providing fresh evidence that they buried their dead - and intriguing clues that ...

The entrance to Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq Image courtesy of Flickr user Kurdistan Photo كوردستان Iraq is the home of the Fertile Crescent, the Cradle of Civilization. But the country’s importance ...

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A grave unearthed ...