Around 40,000 years ago, modern humans spread across Europe and encountered Neanderthals, who had already inhabited the continent for hundreds of thousands of years. These early Homo sapiens ...

The video examines Cro-Magnon life in Europe, from mammoth hunting and cave art to ritual burials and contact with Neanderthals. It also explains what archaeology and DNA suggest about their lasting ...

Once formally proposed as Homo stupidus and portrayed as knuckle-dragging ape-men, Neanderthals are finally receiving their due from scientists. This 1909 Neanderthal reconstruction portrayed the ...