Seventy-five thousand years ago, someone hollowed out a gully by hand in the floor of Shanidar Cave, laid a woman's body in ...

Washington — When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the presence of ...

She looks pretty good for 75,000 years old. Particularly given that her skull was smashed into 200 pieces, possibly by a rockfall, before it was meticulously pieced together by scientists over the ...