Neanderthal remains found in the Neander Valley
1856 · Event
Quarrymen near Düsseldorf find a skullcap and bones that are recognised as a different kind of human, the type specimen of the Neanderthals.
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More from Human Origins & the Ice Age
- Emergence of Homo sapiens (300000 BCE)
- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Bruniquel Cave structures (174000 BCE)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
- Shanidar Cave excavations (1951)
- King names Homo neanderthalensis (1864)
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- On the Origin of Species (1859)
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