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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...