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The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. ISBN 978-0786740734. Gooch, Stan (2008). The Neanderthal Legacy: Reawakening Our Genetic and Cultural Origins. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions. ISBN 978-1594777424. Muller, Stephanie Muller; Shrenk, Friedemann (2008). The Neanderthals. New York ...
A modern human (left) and Neanderthal (right) skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History. Neanderthals were short and stocky. Average male body mass index would have been 26.9–28.2 (overweight) using a size of 164 to 168 cm (5 ft 5 in to 5 ft 6 in) and 76 kg (168 lb).
This is a list of archeological sites where remains or tools of Neanderthals were found. Europe. Belgium ... Neanderthal 1, Neander Valley; Salzgitter-Lebenstedt ...
Shanidar Z is the first Neanderthal found in the cave in more than 50 years, Pomeroy said, but the site could still yield more discoveries. During the filming of the documentary in 2022, Pomeroy ...
Location of Neander Valley, Germany. Feldhofer 1 or Neanderthal 1 is the scientific name of the 40,000-year-old type specimen fossil of the species Homo neanderthalensis. [1] The fossil was discovered in August 1856 in the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte cave in the Neander Valley (Neandertal), located 13 km (8.1 mi) east of Düsseldorf, Germany.
The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latter part of the Middle Paleolithic, the middle of the West Eurasian Old Stone Age.
A new study is shedding light on how and why Neanderthals died out. The predecessor to humans today, Homo sapiens, vanished about 42,000 years ago.
A modern human (left) and Neanderthal (right) skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History For comparison, the average height of 20 male and 10 female Cro-Magnons is, respectively, 176.2 cm (5 ft 9 in) and 162.9 cm (5 ft 4 in), although this decreases by 10 cm (4 in) nearer the end of the Upper Palaeolithic based on 21 males and 15 ...