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05 July 2009
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Homo sapiens neanderthalensis"Neandertals"
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See also
Archaics and Homo
sapiens heidelbergensis
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In the news . . . Sea Gives Up Neanderthal Fossil -- BBC News (15 June 2009) Neanderthals Made Mammoth Jerky:Findings show how first Europeans transported meat over long distances -- Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News (23 June 2009) [and MSNBC] Biodiversity Hotspot Enabled Neanderthals To Survive Longer In South East Of Spain - ScienceDaily (2009-02-02) Neanderthal Weaponry Lacked Projectile Advantage - Discovery News (2009-01-14) European Neanderthals had ginger hair and freckles - Telegraph (2008-12-29) Were Neanderthals stoned to death by modern humans? -- New Scientist
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New Evidence of Neanderthal Violence -- BBC News (2002.04.22)
List of Neanderthal Sites -- Wikipedia
Neandertals Had Big Mouths, Gaped Widely
-- National Geographic News (5/2/08)Last of the Neanderthals, Stephen S. Hall -- National Geographic, October 2008
Neandertals, Modern Humans Interbred, Bone Study Suggests
-- National Geographic News (10/30/06)"Trace your family tree all the way back to Stone Age Europe, and you may find Neandertals among your ancestors. A new study suggests that modern humans and Neandertals (often spelled Neanderthals) interbred fairly regularly and even mingled physical features as Homo sapiens spread across Europe some 35,000 years ago. . . ."

<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/85562050.html>
From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology Earliest Known Human Had Neanderthal Qualities Discovery News (8/22/08) Scientists in Germany Draft Neanderthal Genome -- New York Times (2009-02-12) Neanderthals 'distinct from us' -- BBC News (2009-02-12) Neanderthal Genome "First Draft" Unveiled -- National Geographic News (2009-02-12) First Neanderthal Genome Completed New Scientist (8/7/08)
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From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology 'Neanderthal Tools' Found At Dig BBC News (6/23/08)
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From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology Neanderthals Speak Out After 30,000 Years New Scientist (4/15/08)
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From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M (3/28/08)
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From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology Culture Gave Humans Edge Over Neanderthals MSNBC (3/17/08)
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From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology Neanderthal Climate Link Debated BBC News (9/13/07)
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From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology How the Hyoid Bone Changed History -- LiveScience (2/4/08) Neanderthals: Did They Have Language? CNN (10/18/07)
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From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology Neandertals Ranged Much Farther East Than Thought National Geographic News (10/1/07)
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From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology Red Hair and Freckles ... Max Planck Society (10/26/07)
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Did Neanderthals and Modern Humans Get It Together?
-- Nature (10/30/06)

"The Neanderthals occupied Europe for hundreds of thousands of years"
<http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/31/earliesteuropeans_arc.html?category=archaeology&\1guid=20061031120000>
Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred
-- LiveScience (10/30/06)
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Recent Stories
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(BBC News, 25 October 2007)"
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Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News (27 February 2008)
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(13 September 2006)
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(27 April 2005)
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(25 January 2006)
Neandertals Beaten by Rivals' Word Skills, Study Says
(24 November 2004)
The Genographic Project: A Study of the Human Journey
Neanderthals and Humans: Perhaps They Never Met -- Live Science
(08 May 2006)
Scientist: Humans Strange, Neanderthals Normal -- Live Science (08
September 2006)Gendered Division of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals
EurekAlert (12/4/06)Neanderthal DNA secrets unlocked
15 Nov 06 | Science/NatureNeanderthals 'not close family'
27 Jan 04 | Science/Nature
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"The time period from which this object comes is prior to the time that anatomically modern man entered western Europe. This would imply that this was, like the flute at Divje Babe, Slovenia, a neanderthal instrument. This 40,000 year old flute is shown in a drawing below."
Music of the Ages
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