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Neanderthal
Artist's rendering of Homo neanderthalensis, who ranged from western Europe to Central Asia for some 100,000 years before dying out approximately 30,000 years ago.
The first human fossil assemblage identified as Neanderthal was discovered in 1856 in the Feldhofer Cave, located in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany. These remains were found by lime workers at a quarry and included a robust cranial vault and several limb bones.1