Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

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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)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology

Why Did Neanderthals Have Such Big Noses? New Scientist (10/27/08)

Neanderthals Ate Dolphins, Seals, Cave Remains Suggest National Geographic News (9/22/08)

• Neanderthals Feasted on Seals and Dolphins New Scientist (9/22/08)
• Neanderthals Had a Taste for Seafood Guardian (9/22/08)
• Neanderthals Ate Seafood and Had Sophisticated Palates Telegraph (9/22/08)
• Neanderthals Took Hunt for Food to the Sea New York Times (9/22/08)
• Neanderthals Ate Seals and Dolphins LiveScience (9/22/08)
• Neanderthals 'Enjoyed Broad Menu' BBC News (9/23/08)

Neanderthals Conquered Mammoths, Why Not Us? Discovery News (9/9/08)

• Neanderthals Beat Mammoths, So Why Not Us? MSNBC (9/9/08)

Neanderthals Grew Fast, but Sexual Maturity Came Late National Geographic News (9/8/08)

• Did We Out-Breed Slow-Maturing Neanderthals? New Scientist (9/8/08)
• Neanderthal Brains Grew Like Ours LiveScience (9/8/08)
• Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals Science Daily (9/9/08)

New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth EurekAlert (8/25/08)

• 'Complexity' of Neanderthal Tools BBC News (8/26/08)
• New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth Science Daily (8/26/08)
• Tech-savvy Neanderthals Couldn't Blame Their Tools New Scientist (8/26/08)
• Neanderthals Matched Brawn With Brains Discovery News (8/26/08)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(14/25 August 2008)

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)

• Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced from 38,000-Year-Old Bone EurekAlert (8/7/08)
• Neanderthal Bone Yields Complete Mitochondrial Genome Discovery News (8/7/08)
• Leg Bone Yields DNA Secrets of Man's Neanderthal 'Eve' Guardian (8/8/08)
• Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-year-old Bone Science Daily (8/8/08)
• Neanderthals, Modern Humans Share Ancestor, Scientists Say Los Angeles Times (8/9/08)
• Neanderthals Didn't Mate With Modern Humans, Study Says National Geographic News (8/12/08)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(1 July 2008)

'Neanderthal Tools' Found At Dig BBC News (6/23/08)

• Neanderthal Tools Reveal Advanced Technology Telegraph (6/23/08)
• Last Neanderthals Were Smart, Sophisticated Discovery (6/23/08)
• Neanderthals Were High-Tech For Their Era LiveScience (6/23/08)
• Britain's Last Neanderthals Were More Sophisticated Than We Thought EurekAlert (6/23/08)
• Britain's Last Neanderthals Were More Sophisticated Than We Thought Science Daily (6/23/08)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(5 May 2008)

Neanderthals Speak Out After 30,000 Years New Scientist (4/15/08)

• Neanderthals Speak for First Time in 50,000 years Telegraph (4/16/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years Reuters (4/16/08)
• Grunt Work: Scientists Re-Create Neanderthal Speech Discovery (4/16/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years MSNBC (4/16/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Out After 30,000 Years ABC News (4/17/08)
• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years Science Daily (4/21/08)

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M (3/28/08)

• Neanderthals at Mealtime: Pass the Meat Discovery News (4/23/08)
  
  
  
• Neanderthals Wore Make-up and Liked to Chat ABC News (3/27/08)
• Neanderthals Wore Make-Up and Liked to Chat New Scientist (3/27/08)
  
  
  
• Culture Gave Humans Edge Over Neanderthals MSNBC (3/17/08)
  • Skull Changes Show Time of Human-Neandertal Split National Geographic News (3/17/08)
  • The Neanderthal-Human Split: (Very) Ancient History Disocovery News (3/17/08)
  • Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection Science Daily (3/19/08)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(20 March 2008)

Culture Gave Humans Edge Over Neanderthals MSNBC (3/17/08)

• Skull Changes Show Time of Human-Neandertal Split National Geographic News (3/17/08)
• The Neanderthal-Human Split: (Very) Ancient History Disocovery News (3/17/08)
• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection Science Daily (3/19/08)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(24 September 2007)

Neanderthal Climate Link Debated BBC News (9/13/07)

• Climate - No Smoking Gun for Neanderthals Max Planck Society (9/13/07)
• Neanderthals 'Not Killed by Climate Change' Nature (9/12/07)
• Climate Change 'Did Not Kill Neanderthals' Telegraph (9/12/07)
• <Climate Link To Neanderthal Demise Abates Washington Post (9/13/07)
• Neanderthals' Disappearance Gets More Mysterious LiveScience (9/12/07)
• New Evidence on the Role of Climate in Neanderthal Extinction EurekAlert (9/12/07)
• Neanderthal Vanishing Act: Case Closed? Discovery News (9/12/07)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(18 October 2008)

How the Hyoid Bone Changed History -- LiveScience (2/4/08)

Neanderthals: Did They Have Language? CNN (10/18/07)

• Neanderthals May Have Had Gene for Speech New York Times (10/18/07)
• Talk Like a Man Science (10/18/07)
• Did Neanderthals Natter? Los Angeles Times (10/20/07)
• Neanderthals May Have Talked Reuters (10/18/07)
• Chatty Cave Men? Me Neanderthal, Talk Just Fine Live Science (10/18/07)
• Chatty Cavemen? Me Neanderthal, Talk Good MSNBC (10/18/07)
• Modern Speech Gene Found in Neanderthals Nature (10/18/07

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(2 October 2007)

Neandertals Ranged Much Farther East Than Thought National Geographic News (10/1/07)

• Neanderthals Reached China's Doorstep Discovery News (10/1/07)
• Neanderthals Trekked All the Way Into Siberia MSNBC (10/1/07)
• Neanderthals Roamed as Far as Siberia New Scientist (9/30/07)
• Fossil DNA Expands Neanderthal Range New York Times (10/2/07)
• Neanderthal Empire Grows Telegraph (10/2/07)

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology
(30 October 2007)

Red Hair and Freckles ... Max Planck Society (10/26/07)

• Neanderthals 'Were Flame-Haired' BBC News (10/25/07)
• DNA Reveals Some Neanderthals Were Ginger Telegraph (10/26/07)
• Red-Haired Neanderthals? Possibly, Scientists Say CNN (10/26/07)
• Red-Headed Neanderthals? DNA Says Yes: Study Yahoo (10/25/07)
• Some Neanderthals Were Redheads MSNBC (10/25/07)
• Report Connects Red Hair to Neanderthals Yahoo (10/25/07)
• Neanderthal Bones Make a Case for Redheads New York Times (10/30/07)

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• Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective -- Kharlena María Ramanan
  • Lifeways
  • Burial, Ritual, Religion, and Cannibalism
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  • The Fate of the Neandertal -- Tricia Serviss
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• Homo neanderthalensis -- Lorraine Dallmeier
• Neanderthal -- Discovery Channel
• Cave Bears -- Wladyslaw Jan Kowalski
• Cool Neanderlinks -- Anne Gilbert
• Neandertal -- The Neandertal Museum
• Neanderthal Art -- Neanderthal art and tools from Fontmaure, France
• Neandertals and Genetics -- William Hernandez
• Neandertal DNA -- Archaeological Institute of America
• Neandertal Flute -- Bob Fink
• The Neandertal Museum
• Homo sapiens neandertalensis: Forcing a radical reconsideration of human origins -- WSU
• Neandertal -- Hooper Museum
• Our Neandertal Reconstruction: A World First! -- Dolan DNA Learning Center
• Computer-assisted Paleoanthropology (CAP) and the Neanderthals
• What did one Neanderthal say to the other Neanderthal? -- Peopling of the World: Europe
  
  

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• Articles
  • Neanderthals 'used glue to make tools' -- BBC News
  • Blow to Neanderthal breeding theory -- BBC News
  • Meet the Neanderthals -- BBC News
  • Museum Information System at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Pech de l'Aze IV, France -- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (UPM)