The Neanderthal Discovery That CHANGED Everything

Описание: No specimen of the Neanderthal type has a more remarkable history than the Gibraltar woman cranium. The Gibraltar woman cranium was thus the first discovery of the Neanderthal type of man, the famous specimen having been found in Germany nine years later, in 1857. It bears a resemblance to the Krapina woman skull discovered in 1899 in Croatia.

Of the various problems relating to extinct forms of man, none is of greater interest than that which concerns Homo neanderthalensis. This peculiar and extinct species of man appeared in Europe about the commencement of the Mousterian cultural period, and all traces of him vanish towards the close of that period. Where he came from and where he finally disappeared we do not know, hence every additional fact we can collect about him is of value.


CHAPTERS
0:00 THE FEMALE GIBRALTAR SKULL
8:05 THE FEMALE KRAPINA SKULL
16:00 WHO WERE THESE ANCIENT HUMANS?

SOURCES:

KRAPINA NEANDERTHALS
Surface analysis of an eagle talon from Krapina
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Evidence for Neandertal Jewelry: Modified White-Tailed Eagle Claws at Krapina
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

GIBRALTAR NEANDERTHALS
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2...
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/first-...

BOOK:
Keith, Sir Arthur, 'Antiquity of Man" 1915