Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago. This suggests the two species may have had, at ...

After combing through the literature, the team found five Neanderthal burial sites and two Homo sapiens burial sites in the region from this period. The Neanderthals almost entirely buried their ...

More recently the species has been renamed Paranthropus boisei and described as a branch of the human family tree, but not a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens. The anatomy was unlike Lucy ...