A tiny skull fragment from Cova Negra in Valencia, Spain was identified as part of a Neanderthal child around six years old and showed multiple inner-ear malformations consistent with Down syndrome.

The study of an assemblage of Neanderthal human bones discovered in the Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium) has brought to light selective cannibalistic behavior primarily targeting female adults and ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately 28,000 years ago, several millennia after Neanderthals are widely thought ...