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Devil's Tower Child

Homo neanderthalensis

 

Soft tissue reconstruction based on the fossil of a Neanderthal child (Gibraltar 2, Devil's Tower, U.K., ca. 50,000 - 30,000 y)

 

Sculptor: © Elisabeth Daynès, Paris

 

Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

 

"Gibraltar 2, also known as Devil's Tower Child, represented five skull fragments of a male Neanderthal child discovered in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The discovery of the fossils at the Devil's Tower Mousterian rock shelter was made by archaeologist Dorothy Garrod in 1926." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar_2

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