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New Thoughts on Neanderthal Range and Tool Use Tuesday, February 16, 2021 JENA, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, an international team of scientists has conducted a new analysis of a tooth and tools unearthed in 1928 in Shukbah Cave, which is located in the Judaean Mountains. The artifacts had been held in a private collection until recently. Clément Zanolli of the University of Bordeaux explained that the molar belonged to a Neanderthal child of about nine years of age, making the cave the southernmost known Nea...

Paleolithic Teeth Identified as Modern Human–Neanderthal Hybrid Tuesday, February 2, 2021 LONDON, ENGLAND—A new study of teeth recovered in the early twentieth century from La Cotte de St. Brelade, a cave on the English Channel island of Jersey, suggests that they came from two individuals whose ancestry was made up of a mix of Neanderthals and modern humans, according to a Gizmodoreport. The teeth have been dated to about 48,000 years ago, when lower sea levels connected the island with what is now France. “The roots look very Neanderthal, whereas the neck and crowns of the tee...