The Clan of the Cave Bear
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The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 work of prehistoric fiction by Jean M. Auel about prehistoric times. It is the first novel in the Earth's Children book series, which speculates on the possibilitie
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Neanderthal
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Neanderthals are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly 40,000 years ago wi
The Clan of the Cave Bear
…Auel about prehistoric times. It is the first novel in the Earth's Children book series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans. The novel references the advance of the polar ice sheets, setting the story 18,000 years BCE, when the farthest southern…
Neanderthal at AMNH
Skullcap of Neanderthal 1, the type specimen, at the Musée de l'Homme, Paris
The site of Kleine Feldhofer Grotte where Neanderthal 1 was discovered
William K. Gregory's The Family Tree of Man exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, 1924 1) Notharctus 2) Propliopithecus 3) Dryopithecus 4) Java Man 5) Piltdown Man 6) Heidelberg Man 7) Neanderthal Man 8) Cro-Magnon Man 9) Australian Black-fellow (pejorative term for Aboriginal Australians) 10) Hottentot (pejorative term for the Southern African Khoisan) 11) Chinese 12) American Caucasian