2018 was a banner year for discoveries about our species's evolution and extinct relatives like the Neanderthals. Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the worldThe Neanderthals are probably the best-known extinct hominins. In February we finally obtained hard evidence that Neanderthals made cave art, as prehistoric humans did. But they are about on a par with the art humans were producing at the same time. In April archaeologists described a human finger bone from the Saudi Arabian desert, which is at least 85,000 years old.

Source: Forbes December 20, 2018 14:01 UTC