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From 'the last Neanderthal' to sacrifices in Peru: Our biggest archaeology stories of 2024

Here are our biggest archeology stories of 2024.

LiveScience · Dec 25, 2024

10 fascinating discoveries about Neanderthals in 2024, from 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal to an ancient glue factory

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.

LiveScience · Dec 20, 2024

From 'Lucy' to the 'Hobbits': The most famous fossils of human relatives

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.

LiveScience · Nov 26, 2024

DNA of 'Thorin,' one of the last Neanderthals, finally sequenced, revealing inbreeding and 50,000 years of genetic isolation

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may have lived as recently as 42,000 years ago.

LiveScience · Sep 11, 2024

Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, our research shows

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: in Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Neanderthals were thought to be part of a single, genetically homogeneous population, spread across Spain, France, Croatia, Belgium,…

The Conversation · Sep 11, 2024

The best Lord of the Rings games

The best Lord of the Rings games and other Tolkien adaptations.

PC Gamer · Nov 30, 2017