The Neandertals
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Staring into the gloom, I imagine the cave's ancient inhabitants,
wrapped in bear skins, huddled near a fire. The haunches of a
reindeer roast in the fire. A mother nurses her infant. Children
playfully throw pieces of bone into the flames. An old woman tends
the wounds of a hunter wit ....
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.... the glaciers would
always return and the Neandertals would always be forced south again. The
Neandertals could be found as far north as England and as far south as Spain,
from Gibralter to Uzbekistan.
Neandertal bones have been found in the Neander Valley and Dusseldorf
Germany, in Altamura, Italy and Vindija, Croatia. These are major sites for the
European caves the Neandertals lived in. Although the Neandertals went to the
southern tip of Italy, they never crossed the Mediterranean Sea ....
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