Neanderthals used `toothpicks to alleviate pain of gum disease`

Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 17:52

A new research based on the Cova Forada Neanderthal fossil has shown that hominid used toothpicks to mitigate pain caused by oral diseases such as inflammation of the gums, periodontal disease.

Neanderthals, not modern humans invented bone tools 50,000 yrs ago

Last Updated: Saturday, September 21, 2013, 13:11

Researchers have suggested that it may have been Neanderthals, and not modern humans, who made first specialized bone tools in Europe.

Early humans hunted giant prehistoric elephant for its meat

Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2013, 22:39

Early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant for their meat, scientists say.

Neanderthals ate fish 45,000 years ago

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 15:35

Neanderthals were eating fish some 45,000 years ago, a new study has found, suggesting the close human relatives had a more diverse diet than previously thought.

Neanderthals` tool making skills more advanced than believed

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 11:20

Researchers have discovered Neanderthal bone tools which were excavated at two neighboring Paleolithic sites in southwest France.

Neanderthals` large eyes might have led to their extinction

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 12:48

Neanderthals became extinct because they had larger eyes than modern humans, a new study of skulls of the now extinct species has suggested.

Inability to catch rabbits may have led to demise of Neanderthals

Last Updated: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 12:28

Neanderthals became extinct as they were unable to adapt their hunting skills to catch small animals like rabbits, a new study has claimed.

Last Neanderthals and modern humans did not coexist in Iberia

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 11:47

An international study has questioned a theory, which held that the last Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia at the same time that modern humans advanced in the northern part of the peninsula.

Neanderthals sang opera, says researcher

Last Updated: Friday, February 1, 2013, 13:03

Neanderthals sang opera, British archaeologist Steven Mithen told EFE.

Did Neanderthals sailed to Mediterranean islands?

Last Updated: Saturday, November 17, 2012, 18:42

A study has provided new evidence which suggests that Neanderthals, or even older Homo erectus (“Upright Man”) might have sailed around the Mediterranean, stopping at islands such as Crete and Cyprus.