FIGURE 1. A head of its time — Neanderthal skull discovered in Gibraltar in 1848.
From the following article:
Paul Mellars
Nature 395, 539-540(8 October 1998)
doi:10.1038/26842
Remains such as this allow us to make reconstructions of what the Neanderthals looked like. That shown overleaf is of a Neanderthal woman based on measurements from a 41,000-year-old skeleton found at Tabun in Israel.
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