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# Neanderthals

Last year
2023
Neanderthal wall art from 57,000 years ago uncovered in France
All time
Study places Homo sapiens in Europe much earlier than previously thought
Study reveals earliest cave art belonged to Neanderthals, not humans
The cave where western humans got it on for the first time...
Humans and Neanderthals lived side-by-side for 5,000 years. We share DNA. Do the maths.
Neanderthal man cooked and ate pigeon
Modern humans a 'greater threat' to Neanderthals than natural disasters
In pictures: Oldest cave paintings 'may not have been made by modern man'
Neanderthals were promiscuous because they had longer fingers