CSI Neanderthal: Interspecies Homicide Of Shanidar 3
Monday, July 20, 2009 - 16:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Neanderthals were stoutly-built and human-like and lived at the same time and in the same areas as some modern humans. But they went extinct. Anthropologists have tried to solve the mystery of Neanderthal's fate since the first fossils were discovered in the small valley of the river Düssel called Neandertal, about 7 miles east of Düsseldorf in Germany. Speculation is they they inter-bred with modern humans or failed to compete for food or resources or perhaps were even hunted to extinction by humans. read more
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