This is a list of Neanderthal fossils.
Some important European Neanderthals
Remains of more than 300 European Neanderthals have been found. This is a list of the most notable. Name Age Cranial capacity (cm3) Yeardiscovered Country Discovered by Now located at Ehringsdorf skull 150k–120k 1450 1908–1925 Germany Archäologischen Landesmuseums Thüringen Engis 2 Undated ? (child) 1829 Belgium Philippe-Charles Schmerling University of Liège Gibraltar 1 40k 1200 1848 Gibraltar Edmund Flint Natural History Museum, London Gibraltar 2 Undated ? (child) 1926 Gibraltar Dorothy Garrod Natural History Museum, London Krijn 100-40 ka (Not a full skull) 2001 Netherlands Luc Anthonis Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 60k 1600 1908 France L. Bardon, A. Bouyssonie and J. Bouyssonie La Ferrassie 1 70k–50k 1641 1909 France Louis Capitan and Denis Peyrony Musée de l'Homme Neanderthal 1 40k 1452 1856 Germany Kleine Feldhofer Grotte Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn Saccopastore 1 250k 1200 1929 Italy Saccopastore 2 250k 1300 1935 Italy Alberto Blanc and Henri Breuil Altamura Man 170k 1993 Italy
Southwest Asian Neanderthals As of 2017, this list of Southwest Asian Neanderthals may be considered essentially complete.
Central and North Asian Neanderthals Central Asian Neanderthals were found in Uzbekistan and North Asian Neanderthals in Asian Russia.
+ CountrySitePrincipal Neanderthal findsMNI Geological age (ka)Initial descriptionsNotes Uzbekistan Teshik-Tash 8-11-yr-old skeleton 1 — Okladnikov (1949) Uzbekistan Obi-Rakhmat Subadult skull frag. and teeth 1 74 Glantz et al. (2008) Asian Russia Chagyrskaya Partial mandible1 — (Announced in Viola 2012) Asian Russia OkladnikovSub-adult humerus and femur 1 (Announced in Krause et al. 2007) mtDNA sampled Asian Russia Denisova Altai 1: Toe phalanx♀ D11: Bone fragment 2 — Mednikova (2011) Brown, et al. (2016)Altai 1: Full genome sequenced D11: mtDNA sampled Total 6
See also List of Southwest Asian Neanderthals Neanderthal Museum List of fossil sites List of human fossils
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