On the bank of the Rhône River in southern France, in a limestone cave known as Grotte Mandrin, scientists have uncovered a ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

High in the Caucasus Mountains, buried beneath the cold floor of a limestone cave, archaeologists have found something small, ...

A Neanderthal artefact found in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains is the oldest bone spear tip ever found in Europe, a new ...

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

Archaeologists discovered a bone spearhead approximately 80,000 years old, identified as the oldest bone spearhead in Europe ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone ... It recontextualizes the roles Neanderthals played in the innovations of the modern world and proves that the ancient ...

A bone spear tip from the North Caucasus, Russia, dated to 80,000–70,000 years ago, represents the oldest such artifact in Europe and was crafted by Neanderthals.

What’s extraordinary about the discovery is that it was made by Neanderthals, demonstrating that this human species was already developing advanced hunting tools long before modern humans arrived in ...