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A Neanderthal time capsule from Grotta Guattari
Excavations of a new chamber reveal an ancient floor with more than a dozen new Neanderthal fossil remains.
 • John Hawks
Fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés, Morocco, and crossroads of human evolution
Jaws, teeth, and a hyena-chewed femur may be close to the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people.
 • John Hawks
Sparking ancient fires
New research helps to show the challenges of documenting ancient firemaking
 • John Hawks
Bizarre foods: Neanderthal edition
Scientists propose a maggot-fueled hypothesis for the diets of ancient hunters
 • John Hawks
The humanity of a new Denisovan
Identification of the Harbin skull by mtDNA and proteins and what it means to be Homo sapiens.
 • John Hawks
Flexed burials on the right: A sign of Neanderthal-modern exchange?
New work at a site of similar age to Skhūl and Qafzeh suggests cultural sharing among groups of different biological ancestry.
 • John Hawks
Seeing Neandertal teeth as art
The photography of Luka Mjeda brought a new way of looking at the teeth of the Krapina people.
 • John Hawks
The circumstances of the Taung discovery
The textbook story of the fossil leaves out a wider context in which scientists interpreted the first evidence of Australopithecus.
 • John Hawks
A look at the fossil skull from Steinheim
The skull provides some of the best evidence for the ancestral population of Neandertals, and had a tumultuous history in the decades after its…
 • John Hawks
Did scientists miss a fake Neanderthal for 25 years?
An investigation claims dozens of cases of misdated bones in Rheinland-Pfalz, including the purported Ochtendung Neanderthal.
 • John Hawks
A look at the Neanderthal from Altamura
The exceptional skeleton encased in calcite has started to yield insights about early Neanderthals.
 • John Hawks
The impressive genetic diversity of the last Neanderthals
The new “Thorin” genome from Grotte Mandrin represents a previously-unknown Neanderthal deep history.
 • John Hawks
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