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The Search For Neanderthal | Archeology (Human Evolution Documentary) (2019x126)

Air date: Dec 10, 2019

In 1856, workmen in a cave in the Neander valley near Dusseldorf, Germany, unearthed a human skeleton. Its skull had a low, protruding brow, large teeth, and a massive bone structure. And from this discovery began a lengthy dispute: did the Neanderthal man represent an abnormal modern human? Or an extinct ancestor?