Aubert's team studied layers of art which cover the walls of a limestone cave called Leang Bulu Sipong 4 on the Indonesian ...
Art was previously thought to be a behaviour unique to our species (Homo sapiens) and far beyond our evolutionary cousins. The cave paintings include stencilled impressions of Neanderthal hands ...
Dental enamel suggests our extinct cousins experienced longer periods of stress during childhood.
Discovered in 1979 in France's Rhone Valley caves, Thorin's 100,000 year old remains represent the most complete Neanderthal ...
Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...
which you will visit to learn how these caves were discovered in 1994 and hear how this beautiful early Homo sapiens art tradition relates to what we know of the last Neanderthals. In the evening ...
If proven correct, then Homo sapiens and Homo floresiensis must have ... cultures that didn't develop personal ornamentation, rock art, or some other manifestation of the introspective human ...
The Hellenistic shift towards portraying the marginalized allowed artists to capture a more complete picture of the human condition.
The origin of our species, Homo sapiens, has puzzled paleoanthropologists for generations ... As there are archaeological examples of modern cognition, such as tools and art, that appear around the ...
The Spanish cave art indicates that Neanderthals were in fact capable of ... Perhaps Neanderthals were unable to cope with competition for resources from incoming groups of Homo sapiens. Ancient DNA ...
By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...
Their anarchist movement, he believes, should tap into the “ancient instinct” of the “Thals,” who (in contrast to their ruthlessly competitive neighbor, Homo sapiens) “lived ...