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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Under this fragment of prehistoric Skull a neanderthal Man roots in the by Susan  staff writer tracing Anas family roots can unearth Suine illustrious Rel num if a searcher is really he can dig Back into Prohic uric times about years ago in the u wooded Haven in East Cen trial Germany that gave its name to oni of Europe first a plaque the of a Pool table boiled to a Rock formation informs motorists who slow Down enough to read it that die Mosi famous Caveman or All was unearthed in 1856 in thai Kuhr District Valley i named after an obscure 17th Century German composer or religious Joachim the Tranquility in the near is interrupted Only by the Low of the 20milclong Busse during the begin Iii of the Iloilo enc period the Dawn of Early Man about a million ago in Van surrounded by jutting Limestone Cliffs and there modern or Llama first appeared about years  people do mated the scene in Lite pleistocene limes Frum Europe to Eastern Mounter Manuan lands and Central varying in from Pisarc to in i Sponic to conditions or As result of inter mixture with other la most of the curves in the Nean Dcruz were destroyed As German workers quarried the chits for material far Mast during one of these a worker mumbled upon some boat shaped Bones which were though to be insignificant and an Anonymous Foreman Hod the insight to Salvage 17 of the frag a High school Johann Carl exam nod them identified the upper part of the Skull As belonging to an extinct species of which was later classified As neanderthal Fuh Roll determined the Skull could not have belonged to a Modem nun for 11 pro Ludo Loo far in the Back and the sloping forehead and Bony Ridge above the eyes were Loo speculations on the neanderthal mans lifestyle and Date of existence immediately poured in from archaeologists and anthropologists throughout from a conglomeration of opinions and Carbon dating it was generally agreed that the first neanderthal men lived in the last interglacial stage in the frigid Tundra of Central and Southeastern the glaciers did not Advance As far As Northern Germany during this but they hovered ominously about 100 Miles the neanderthal Man had to be a killed Hunter to survive in a harsh in Bate assumed that he probably killed and other animals for food ant cd along by catapulting boulders ire a the Cliffs of the eave dwellings he lived museum Skull session Nea Mertal Mode wander Neander als the Way they Flint weapons used to overcome smaller such As the Bison and have also been unearthed from the Val Leys in this area of in the the parts of Skeleton which were believed to be of a 65yearold were transported from his former Home to the Noti Witchet Lantei ileum in Bonn where u is the neanderthal tracing the life and limes of the Cave Dweller is in a Small town about four Miles East of the museum is situated on the Bank of the Dossel and As one descends into the densely Folla cd Valley it feels As if the bands of time have been its a natural reaction to peer through the stillness of the Forest just in Case a Wolf or a Cave dwelling Bear should be lurking near visitors find a Small bund housing replicas of the original be Andruj mans Skeleton while simulated figures gaze from behind gum at first our prehistoric Friend looks similar to the average Homo Sapien if there is such a but soon the ridged the cheekbones and particularly the elongated Skull become Many scientists theorized that the Nean do real nun was exception Auy intelligent because of the cranial area capable of housing a Large they also reasoned that he was Ingen ious and resourceful to exist in an Arctic like do ago inc Elk 000 Sil cause which tin these no All Reen of m which charge them aft log not p Fiven do cac it the it from Andu mond adult Childr Page 14 the stars and stripes Augu  
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