But the newfound hearth, seemingly dug into the floor of a cave in what is now Gibraltar, shows that Neanderthals were skilled engineers who had fine-tuned the glue-making process. "The structure ...

According to a 2024 study in Cell Genomics, Thorin was a Neanderthal found in Eurasia, and he's genetically similar to the Gibraltar Neanderthals, who lived across the continent. Thorin was an adult ...

At the site of Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar, a small assemblage of mollusks was found, in addition to a few marine mammal bones (monk seal and dolphin) with cut-marks, indicating that Neanderthals ...

The first Neanderthal fossil was uncovered in Belgium in 1830, though nobody accurately identified it for more than a century. In 1848, the Forbes Quarry in Gibraltar yielded one of the most ...

the Neanderthal, who migrated south from their northernmost range in Central Europe as glaciers advanced, settled in the wooded regions of Iberia (present-day Spain and Portugal) and Gibraltar.

Human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their distinctive ...

“Originally, we could not quite believe what we had found and had to convince ourselves it was real,” Gibraltar Museum director Clive ... The excavation suggests Neanderthals might have had the ...