Who were Neanderthals?
This country is where the first Neanderthal remains were found/recognized
What is Germany?
This skeletal feature might feature a beard, it is missing from Neanderthals but found in H. sapiens.
What is a chin?
Neanderthals sometimes strung these around their neck to be worn as a pendant.
This substance, usually scraped off from teeth by a dentist preserved information on ancient diets.
What is tartar or calculus?
What is the Middle Pleistocene?
This gap between the wisdom tooth and the ascending ramus of the lower jaw might be related to the mid-facial prognathism in Neanderthals.
Neanderthals may have used this red colored pigment to decorate their bodies.
What is ochre?
These variants of chemical elements can be used to determine the amount of meat in a fossil hominin's diet.
What are isotopes? What is Carbon 13? What is Nitrogen 15?
This Spanish site has fossils that look like they are likely Neanderthal ancestors.
What is Sima de los Huesos?
This Neanerthal feature is known as a "chignon" in French.
What is an occipital bun?
What are quantal vowels?
These starches have been found preserved on the teeth of Neanderthals.
What is barley?
This geographical region has sites in which the most Eastern Neanderthals are found.
What is Siberia?
This dental feature reflects the large pulp cavity in Neanderthal molars.
What are taurodont molars?
These might be used to infer that Neanderthals intentionally buried their dead.
What are grave offerings? What are burial pits? What is body position? What is preservation?
This black material found in many Neanderthal sites is thought to be used in making fire.
What is manganese dioxide?
This skeleton was found in France in the early 1900s. Marcellin Boule used it to make his famous Neanderthal reconstruction.
What is La Chappelle aux Saints or "The Old Man from La Chappelle"?
This postcranial feature likely reflects cold adaptation in Neanderthals.
What are limb proportions?
This modified juvenile bear bone found in Solvenia suggests Neanderthals may have played music.
What is a flute?
These scratches might tell us something about the diets of Neanderthals and other fossil hominins with in a few weeks of their death.
What is dental microwear?