neanderthal

     

Palaeoanthropus neanerthalensis H. s. neanderthalensis

Trivia about neanderthal

  • This "man" found in a German valley in 1856 was the first fossil recognized as a prehistoric human
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates the morphing station.) The hall's morphing station allows visitors to see what they'd look like, had they been born into a different human species; here, I'm morphing from a Homo sapiens into one of these long-extinct cousins
  • This type of man, reconstructed here, lived in Europe until about 30,000 years ago
  • Archaeologist Ian Gilligan claims these guys died out because they learned to sew too late to survive the Ice Age
  • Oddly, in 1983 a skeleton of this Pleistocene hominid named for a German valley was found near Haifa
  • In 1856 quarrymen in Germany unearthed part of a skeleton from this archaic man, the archetypal "caveman"
  • At Mt. Carmel in Israel, Dorothy Garrod was the first to find this prehistoric human skeleton outside of Europe
  • To accuse someone of being dopey, crude or just unevolved, you can call him this, from a valley near Dusseldorf

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