Shanidar Cave
Compassion and violence at iconic Neanderthal site.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Human evolution
Behaviour & Cognition
Articles about the cognitive abilities of Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens, and other early hominins.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition
Neanderthals treated dental caries 59,000 years ago
Earliest known example of dental surgery.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
Spanish cave art was produced by Neanderthals
Conclusive evidence that Neanderthals were not the dimwits of popular imagination?
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
175,000-year-old Neanderthal stone circle
Underground structure discovered in 1990s is ten times older than Lascaux cave paintings.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
Killed with a blunt instrument
Evidence for lethal interpersonal violence in the Middle Pleistocene.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
130,000-year-old Neanderthal eagle talon necklace predates H. sapiens influence
Does evidence from Krapina, Croatia refute ‘bow wave’ theory?
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts, Tools & technology
Homo erectus engraved abstract patterns on seashells
500,000-year-old shells provide earliest evidence for symbolic behaviour.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
Neanderthals may have used projectile spears
Bone abnormality suggests repetitive movements similar to those documented for professional throwing athletes.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Human migration, Legacy posts
Cave art from Sulawesi was contemporary with Upper Palaeolithic European cave-painting tradition
U-series re-dating suggests that Indonesian cave art is almost 40,000 years old.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
Neanderthal rock engraving
Important evidence for symbolic behaviour from Gorham’s Cave, Gibraltar.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
Gibraltar Neanderthals ate roasted pigeons
Further evidence of Neanderthal sophistication at Gorham’s Cave.
Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
Craniofacial changes after 80,000 years ago may reflect increased social tolerance
Did technology boom result from reduced male aggression?