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Published online 10 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020909-1
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Two new Neanderthals turn up
Palaeontologists strike gold in nineteenth-century rubbish.
You wait the best part of a century for a lost Neanderthal skeleton to be rediscovered, and then two come along in a week.
Palaeontologists working in the German valley that gave Neanderthals their name have found the remains of human skeletons, their tools and the animals that lived alongside them1.
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