Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and ...

Tar cooked from birch bark by two Stone Age methods held back the growth of Staphylococcus aureus in laboratory dishes, according to a team led by Tjaark Siemssen, an archaeologist at the University ...

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There is even more evidence that Neanderthals were far from the simple cave dwellers we once thought them to be. The discovery of a clublike artifact and other wooden tools from an archaeological site ...

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 ...

Learn how wood imprints and charred remains preserved evidence of Neanderthal spears, bark trays, and other belongings. When a wooden spear broke in a rock shelter near Barcelona, someone seems to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Paul Hudson/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) We Homo sapiens are pretty damn proud of our tool-making prowess. From smartphones to the ...

A round hole in the shoulder blade (scapula) of a Neanderthal whose partial remains were unearthed in a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan may be the earliest known example of lethal interpersonal violence with ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Neanderthal whose life came to a brutal end 75,000 years ago when a sharpened wooden spear plunged into the individual’s chest in one of the earliest ...

Neanderthal had wound from apparent fatal spear attack Interpersonal violence seen as most likely scenario Same individual suffered earlier nonfatal facial injury Partial skeleton found in Iraq's ...