Biology:List of Neanderthal fossils

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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) Year
discovered
Country Discovered by Now located at
Ehringsdorf skull 150k–120k 1450 [1] 1908–1925 Germany Archäologischen Landesmuseums Thüringen
Engis 2 Schaedel 1.jpg Engis 2 Undated ? (child) 1829 Belgium Philippe-Charles Schmerling University of Liège
Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry.jpg Gibraltar 1 40k 1200 [1] 1848 Gibraltar Edmund Flint Natural History Museum, London
Homo neanderthalensis face (University of Zurich).JPG 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
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.jpg La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 60k 1600[1] 1908 France L. Bardon, A. Bouyssonie and J. Bouyssonie
Ferrassie skull.jpg La Ferrassie 1 70k–50k 1641 [1] 1909 France Louis Capitan and Denis Peyrony Musée de l'Homme
Neander1.jpg Neanderthal 1 40k 1452 [1] 1856 Germany Kleine Feldhofer Grotte Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
Homo neanderthalensis skull - National Museum of Natural History (8587341141).jpg Saccopastore 1 250k 1200 [2] 1929 Italy
Saccopastore 2 250k 1300 [3] 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.

Country Site Principal Neanderthal finds MNI Geological age (ka) Initial descriptions Notes
Uzbekistan Teshik-Tash 8-11-yr-old skeleton 1 Okladnikov (1949)
Uzbekistan Obi-Rakhmat Subadult skull frag. and teeth 1 74[4] Glantz et al. (2008)[5]
Asian Russia Chagyrskaya Partial mandible 1 (Announced in Viola 2012)
Asian Russia Okladnikov Sub-adult humerus and femur 1 (Announced in Krause et al. 2007)[6] mtDNA sampled
Asian Russia Denisova Altai 1: Toe phalanx♀ D11: Bone fragment 2 Mednikova (2011)

Brown, et al. (2016)[7]

Altai 1: Full genome sequenced[8]

D11: mtDNA sampled

Total 6

See also

Notes

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Beals, K.L.; Dodd, S.M. (1984). "Brain size, cranial morphology, climate, and time machines". Current Anthropology 25: 301–330. doi:10.1086/203138. 
  2. Sergi, S. (1948). "The palaeanthropi in Italy: the fossil men of Saccopastore and Circeo". Man 48: 61–79. doi:10.2307/2793251. 
  3. Holloway, R.L.. "The poor brain of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis: see what you please". in Delson, Eric. Ancestors: the Hard Evidence. pp. 319–324. 
  4. Bailey, S. E. (2008). "The affinity of the dental remains from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan". Journal of Human Evolution 55 (2): 238–248. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.03.004. PMID 18486185. 
  5. Glantz, Michelle; Viola, Bence; Wrinn, Patrick; Chikisheva, Tatiana; Derevianko, Anatoly; Krivoshapkin, Andrei; Islamov, Uktur; Suleimanov, Rustam et al. (August 2008). "New hominin remains from Uzbekistan". Journal of Human Evolution 55 (2): 223–237. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.12.007. PMID 18499228. 
  6. Krause, Johannes; Orlando, Ludovic; Serre, David; Viola, Bence; Prüfer, Kay; Richards, Michael P.; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Hänni, Catherine et al. (30 September 2007). "Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia". Nature 449 (7164): 902–904. doi:10.1038/nature06193. PMID 17914357. Bibcode2007Natur.449..902K. 
  7. Brown, Samantha; Higham, Thomas; Slon, Viviane; Pääbo, Svante (March 29, 2016). "Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis". Scientific Reports 6: 23559. doi:10.1038/srep23559. PMID 27020421. Bibcode2016NatSR...623559B. 
  8. Prüfer, Kay (2013). "The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains". Nature 505 (1): 43–49. doi:10.1038/nature12886. PMID 24352235. Bibcode2014Natur.505...43P. 

Further reading

  • Arsuaga, Juan Luis (2009). The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. ISBN 978-0786740734. 
  • Gooch, Stan (2008). The Neanderthal Legacy: Reawakening Our Genetic and Cultural Origins. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions. ISBN 978-1594777424. 
  • Muller, Stephanie Muller; Shrenk, Friedemann (2008). The Neanderthals. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1134095162. 
  • Silberman, Neil Asher, ed (2012). The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199735785. 
  • Stringer, Chris (2012). Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1429973441. 

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