Neanderthal skeletons found at Spy
1886 · Event
Two Neanderthal skeletons with stone tools in a Belgian cave prove the Neanderthals a genuine ancient people, not a diseased modern man.
On these timelines: Human Origins & the Ice Age, Master, The Low Countries
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)
- Neanderthal remains found in the Neander Valley (1856)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Bruniquel Cave structures (174000 BCE)
- Taung Child discovered (1924)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
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