In 1926, the skull of a Neanderthal child was found in Devil's Tower.

In 1939, the skull of a Neanderthal man was found in the Guattari Cave by a team led by Alberto Carlo Blanc.

In 1856 workers found in a limestone quarry the skull of a Neanderthal man, thinking it to be the remains of a bear.

In another study, researchers have recently found in Peştera Muierilor, Romania, remains of European humans from years ago who possessed mostly diagnostic " modern " anatomical features, but also had distinct Neanderthal features not present in ancestral modern humans in Africa, including a large bulge at the back of the skull, a more prominent projection around the elbow joint, and a narrow socket at the shoulder joint.

A skull of Neanderthal man from a grotto on Monte Circeo dates to about 65 thousand years BP.

While at Frankfurt, on his way to examine the Neanderthal skull at Bonn, he was struck with paralysis.

The entire pre-existent knowledge of European Neanderthal came from numerous but fragmented finds ; as an example a skullcap in Germany, skull fragments more or less voluminous but never complete in Greece, Italy, Spain and France, forcing anthropologists in a not easy effort to identify characteristics and compatibilities of missing pieces.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

Mousterian deposits found at Gorham's Cave, which are associated with Neanderthals in Europe, have been dated to as recently as 28, 000 to 24, 000 BP, leading to suggestions that Gibraltar was one of the last places of Neanderthal habitation.

It would appear this sets the date by which Homo sapien Upper Paleolithic cultures begin replacing Neanderthal Levalo-Mousterian, and by c. 40, 000 BC Palestine was occupied by the Levanto-Aurignacian Ahmarian culture, lasting from 39-24, 000 BC.

Neanderthal man was present in Europe from about 200, 000 BC, but died out about 30 years ago, possibly out-competed by the modern humans during a period of cold weather.

Anthropologists such as Tim White suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, based on the large amount of “ butchered human " bones found in Neanderthal and other Lower / Middle Paleolithic sites.

During the last glacial period, present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Neanderthals ; the most famous Neanderthal archeological site in Slovenia is a cave close to the village of Šebrelje near Cerkno, where the Divje Babe flute, the oldest known musical instrument in the world was found in 1995.

Dickerson said Redskins tackle Joe Jacoby was " a Neanderthal -- he slobbers a lot, he probably kicks dogs in his neighborhood.

The series was handed to Doug Wheeler, who made the cup that Shining Knight believed to be the Holy Grail to be a cup used in religious ceremony by a Neanderthal tribe that was about to be wiped out by Cro-Magnons, in the published version of issue # 88.

In February 2009, at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), it was announced that the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology had completed the first draft version of the Neanderthal genome.

Their second single was a cover of Hotlegs ' " Neanderthal Man " backed by another Idle Race original number " Victim Of Circumstance ".

It was during such a mining operation that the bones of the original Neanderthal man were found in a cave.

During the 19th century the valley was called Neandershöhle ( Neander's Hollow ), and after 1850 Neanderthal ( Neander Valley ).

The railway station nearby still carries the name Neanderthal, because the railway was built in 1879.

The valley ( German thal modernized to tal ) was renamed in his honor in the early 19th century, and became famous in 1856 when the remains of the Homo neanderthalensis ( Neanderthal Man ) were found there.

Moreover the larynx position of Neanderthal was not a handicap to producing speech sounds.

It was excavated from 1957 – 1961 by Ralph Solecki and his team from Columbia University and yielded the first adult Neanderthal skeletons in Iraq, dating between 60 – 80, 000 years BP.

One was an elderly Neanderthal male known as Shanidar I, or ‘ Nandy ’ to its excavators.

He was aged between 40 and 50 years, which was considerably old for a Neanderthal, equivalent to 80 years old today, and displays severe signs of deformity.

The modern field of paleoanthropology began in the 19th century with the discovery of " Neanderthal man " ( the eponymous skeleton was found in 1856, but there had been finds elsewhere since 1830 ), and with evidence of so-called cave men.

For example, in the Shanidar cave in Iraq, in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales and other sites across Europe and the Near East, Neanderthal skeletons have been discovered with a characteristic layer of flower pollen.

Garrod discovered Neanderthal and early modern human remains, including the skeleton of a Neanderthal female, named Tabun I, which is regarded as one of the most important human fossils ever found.

Excavations are currently underway, and if the so far presented estimates hold true, the site would be the only pre-glacial ( Neanderthal ) site so far discovered in the Nordic Countries, and it is approximately 125, 000 years old.

The most important discovery from that era is a Neanderthal cranium ( c. 200, 000 BCE ), discovered near Gánovce, a village in northern Slovakia.

On Belgian territory Neanderthal fossils were discovered at Engis in 1829-30, La Naulette in 1866, Grotte de Spy in 1886, Grotte Scladina in 1993, and Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, some dating back to at least 100, 000BP.

The earliest known human remain discovered in modern-day Wales is a Neanderthal jawbone, found at the Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in the valley of the River Elwy in North Wales, whose owner lived about 230, 000 years ago in the Lower Palaeolithic period.

In November 2011 tests conducted at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit in England on what were previously thought to be Neanderthal baby teeth, which had been unearthed in 1964 from the Grotta del Cavallo, were identified as the oldest modern human remains discovered anywhere in Europe, dating from between 43, 000 to 45, 000 years ago.

Traces of Neanderthal Man were discovered in the region of Loano, whereas in Ventimiglia, in the grotto of " Balzi Rossi ", numerous remains were found which recall those of Cro-Magnon Man.

In November 2011 tests conducted at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit in England on what were previously thought to be Neanderthal baby teeth, which had been unearthed in 1964 from the Grotta del Cavallo in Italy, were identified as the oldest Cro-Magnon remains ever discovered in Europe, dating from between 43, 000 to 45, 000 years ago.

Garrod discovered Neanderthal and early modern human remains, including the skeleton of a Neanderthal female, named Tabun I, which is regarded as one of the most important human fossils ever found.

These Cro-magnon humans were soon identified as a new prehistoric human race distinct from the Neanderthal man fossils discovered in Germany in 1856.

In the nearby Neanderthal, in the summer of 1856, quarry workers discovered the fossilised remains of what became known as the Neanderthal man or Homo neanderthalensis in Feldhof cave.

In that part of Neanderthal, which is located in Erkrath, in the summer of 1856, quarry workers discovered the fossilised remains of what became known as the Neanderthal man or Homo Neanderthalensis in Feldhof cave.

Although scientists have generally replaced Homo erectus with Homo sapiens as the favored common ancestor of modern humans, it has recently been shown with DNA evidence that non Homo sapiens Neanderthal genomes may have contributed about 4 % of non-African heredity, and the recently discovered Denisova hominin may have contributed 6 % of the genome of Melanesians.

* Information about a supposed Neanderthal flute found in Slovenia-the article written by Dr. Ivan Turk who discovered it.

He is famous for recognizing the significance of the bones of Neanderthal 1, a Neanderthal specimen discovered by German laborers who were digging for limestone in Neander valley ( Neanderthal in German ) in August 1856.

We may have discovered a butchery site, or what would be even more exciting, first evidence in Britain of a Neanderthal hunting site which would tell us much about their organisational and social abilities.