How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

While the skulls of Neanderthals are different to humans, the reconstructed face of Shanidar Z, who lived until the age of around 40, shows that the species resembled humans. “Neanderthal skulls ...

The first Neanderthal skull discovered in modern times hid in a cave in Engis, Belgium until a local doctor pulled it out in 1829. In this video, archaeologist Michel Toussaint describes how the ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human ... since that is a partial ...

and further as lending support to his view that there is an overlap in skull pattern between Sinanthropus and Neanderthal man.

Middle: 'Virtual fossil' of Last Common Ancestor Bottom: Neanderthal skull found in La Ferrassie, France, and dating from 53 to 66 thousand years ago. Now curated in the Musée de l'Homme in ...

The British navy first identified a Neanderthal skull in Forbes' Quarry Cave in 1848, and excavations at Gorham's Cave began in the early 1990s. Within this cave, excavators found dozens of ...

It was here that the largest and most intact Neanderthal skull ever recorded was found. In the evening, you will dine under a stunning rock shelter at the Restaurant de Laugerie Basse. DAY 4 ...

Note that the Neanderthal is painted plaster of paris, with the maroon spots indicating pieces missing from the original. The Cro Magnon skull is molded fiberglass. When you view the casts head-on ...

The Manot skull fragment, which lacks a brow ridge and jaw, has distinctly Homo sapien features, but also hints of Neanderthal characteristics. The authors were careful not to over-interpret their ...