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The La Quina 18 individual is one of the most complete skulls of a Neandertal child. Impressed with the Mousterian stone tools there, Léon Henri-Martin bought the site and excavated there for thirty years.

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2021-03-31

Apidima 1 may be the earliest European fossil aligned with African ancestors of modern people, more than 210,000 years old. But some specialists suggest it was an ancestor of Neandertals. Of course, it may be both.

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2021-03-26

Neandertal introgression sheds light on modern human endocranial globularity https://t.co/lEyX9keafd

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2021-03-06

Recent archaeological work has uncovered the aesthetic cultures of who sometimes decorated themselves with colors, shells, talons, and feathers, marked and engraved cave walls, and had an ear for language.

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2021-03-04

Un estudio liderado por la Cátedra de Otoacústica Evolutiva y Paleoantropología( ) reconstruye por primera vez la audición de los Neandertales y encuentra la prueba de que hablaban. Primera evidencia paleontológica de lenguaje fuera de nuestra propia especie.

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2021-03-02

Descubre los últimos hallazgos sobre los asentamientos neandertales de la mano de expertos arqueólogos.

Neandertales: el último refugio. Gran estreno el domingo 14 de marzo a las 18:00h, en National Geographic

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2021-02-28

The Steinheim skull has been a puzzle in Today, we know that genetic exchanges with Africa influenced early Neandertals, and fossils from Apidima, Greece close in age to Steinheim may reflect this mixing. Why not this one too?

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2021-02-27

Long held in a private collection (!) the tooth of a c. 9-yr-old child marks the Neandertal’s southernmost known range. The associated archaeological assemblage suggests Neands used Nubian Levallois, previously thought to be restricted to H. sapiens. https://t.co/ulVJnQmrd8

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2021-02-16

On I want to recognize the Gibraltar 1 Neandertal skull. This year marks 150 since the publication of The Descent of Man, and this skull was the only skeletal evidence of an extinct human ancestor that Charles Darwin encountered.

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2021-02-13

The Krapina 58 mandible has a rotated left premolar, a trait found in a curiously high fraction of this large Neandertal sample. It may reflect the genetics of this local population

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2021-01-31

📚 AO, petit Neandertal - Claire Troilo & Emmanuel Roudier

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2021-01-25

For more than 100 years, the remains of a Neandertal child lay unrecognized in Belgium after being unearthed in 1829. Much of the child's context was lost in excavation, but today Engis 2 is crucial evidence about growth and development in

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2021-01-22

The perils of understanding extinct populations with morphology are front and center with the Arago sample. Were they early Neandertals, or something else? My guess is a mosaic of drift in ancient Eurasian populations.

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2021-01-17

Was burial of the dead practiced by Neandertals or is it an innovation to our species?
There are indications in favour of the first hypothesis:
Recent evidences of a neanderthal child buried 41000 years ago in Dordogne France: https://t.co/QvF0xQ7TDj
Image: anibal/stock.adobe.com

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2020-12-16



La Ferrassie 8

-Hurrengo asteazkenean informazio berria neandertal honi buruz
-Come wednesday, new information about this individual
-El próximo miércoles, nuevos datos sobre este neandertal

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2020-12-04

Esta semana he actualizado el blog con dos nuevas traducciones de
Charla de Steven Erikson con lectores sobre Polvo de sueños▶️ https://t.co/SiWA3xtVlv
Neandertales, el mundo malazano y el tiempo profundo, ensayo de Erikson▶️ https://t.co/ZP9fCNeD0t

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2020-11-08

My talk on the peopling of western Eurasia by Homo populations and their interactions with local given at the last meeting is now on line via : https://t.co/u4CEaIv2iK

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2020-11-06

Los neandertales y otras muchas variedades humanas extintas confeccionaban piezas laboriosas y planificadas de artesanía, y es lógico pensar que valoraran tanto su función como el esfuerzo invertido, y que los artesanos las usaran como marca de habilidad o identidad. A partir... https://t.co/vns9X8HFKS

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2020-11-01

Sometime between 370-150,000 years ago Neandertals got a Y chromosome from a more modern-like source population. This ultimately spread throughout all later Neandertal populations from which anyone has sampled DNA.

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2020-09-27