New fossil evidence suggests the Neanderthal practice of collecting eagle talons, which were likely worn as jewelry or used to create powerful symbols, was more extensive than previously thought.

More than a century ago, eight 130,000-year-old eagle claws were discovered at an archaeological site in present-day Croatia. Now, researchers studying the marks on them reveal that the talons were ...

Long before they shared the landscape with modern humans, Neanderthals in Europe developed a sharp sense of style, wearing eagle claws as jewelry, new evidence suggests. Researchers identified eight ...

Even if science can never prove it definitively, we choose to believe this hypothesis. A new paper in PLoS one posits an awesome historical hypothesis: that Neanderthals wore eagle talons as a kind of ...

Imperial eagle talons. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 1st, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Rodríguez-Hidalgo at IDEA (Instituto de ...

Archaeologists have identified a remarkable piece of Neanderthal jewelry comprised of eight white-tailed eagle talons. Worn 130,000 years ago, the discovery shows that Neanderthals were capable of ...

Eagle bone from Cova Foradada showing cut marks. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 1st, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Rodríguez-Hidalgo ...