Deep inside Ojo Guareña, one of the largest cave systems in Europe, in the northern Spanish province of Burgos, archaeologists have spent eleven consecutive summers digging through a single Neanderthal layer. This year’s season, which wrapped up in late August 2026, pushed the excavated area of that layer — known as level 4D — to […]

An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the most widespread theories about the disappearance of Neanderthals. According to their findings, climate change and the resulting fragmentation of habitats did not play a decisive role in the extinction of this human species, which occurred approximately 40,000 years ago. The work, […]