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Illustration from page 39 of The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind, the definitive edition revised and rearranged by the author, by H.G. Wells, illustrated by J. F. Horrabin, showing Neanderthal Man
English: Neanderthal man reconstruction, Natural History Museum, London Artistically and scholarly, this is a brilliant reconstruction of Neanderthal man who used to live in Europe through the Ice Ages until the arrrival of "modern" man some 40 000 years ago. Yet, there was a long period of both types of humans living side by side (and that is ...
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The skull is the most complete Neanderthal skull ever found. [2] With a cranial capacity of 1641 cm 3 , it is the second largest hominid skull ever discovered, after Amud 1 . The skull displays many of the "classic" examples of Neanderthal anatomy, including a low, sloping forehead and large nasal openings.The teeth are well preserved and the ...
The Neanderthal skull is distinguished namely by a flat and broad skullcap, rounded supraorbital torus (the brow ridges), high orbits (eye sockets), a broad nose, mid-facial prognathism (the face projects far from the base of the skull), an "en bombe" (bomb-like) skull shape when viewed from the back, and an occipital bun at the back of the skull. [4]