Learn how Neanderthals in central Europe hunted pond turtles and likely reused their shells as containers or scooping tools.

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Neanderthals hunted turtles but did not rely on them for food. Instead, they cleaned and reused shells as tools.

In 1948, amateur archaeologists unearthed the remains, which should have shifted researchers' views of Neanderthals. But poor ...

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In 1948, a group of amateurs led by a local headmaster in Lehringen, Germany, uncovered the skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant—the largest land mammal known to have roamed Europe—in ...

Researchers have re-analysed a set of elephant bones and a wooden spear found in Germany in 1948, which provide compelling evidence of Neanderthals' big game hunting abilities ...

Footprints preserved on ancient dunes show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal’s coastline. Their behavior and diet suggest a far more adaptable and socially complex ...

There has been someone here in Britain, without a break, for 11,500 years. For nearly half of that time, until farmers ...

One day over 120,000 years ago, a resourceful group of Neanderthals took down a 7,700-pound, ancient elephant in present-day Germany. Now, paleoanthropologists studying the area can confirm that the ...