- Neanderthal Museum
Focuses on human evolution in its entirety, from man's emergence in the African savannah right through to the present day.
www.neanderthal.de
- Wikipedia: Neanderthal
Article about the Neanderthals (or Neandertals), a species of the Homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_neanderthalensis
- Krapina: The World's Largest Neanderthal Finding Site
Information about the discovery and collection of fossil remnants of the Homo sapiens neanderthalensis species found at the Hu¿njak hill in Krapina.
www.krapina.com
- DNA Shows Neandertals Were Not Our Ancestors
Article from Penn State.
www.psu.edu/ur/NEWS/news/Neandertal.html
- Nature's Holism: Neanderthals
Looks at the distribution of the fossil evidence, genetics, and ancient habitat of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
www.ecotao.com/holism/hu_neand.htm
- Evolution of Modern Humans: Neandertals
Profile of the well-known late archaic humans, the Neandertals. Learn about important Neandertal sites in Europe and Southwest Asia, the differences in their anatomy from modern humans, and various theories on why they died out.
anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_2.htm
- Neanderthal Flute@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Instruments/Neanderthal_Flute
- Time-Space Chart of Hominid Fossils: Homo neanderthalensis
Offers photographs of notable Neanderthals fossil specimens.
www.msu.edu/~heslipst/contents/ANP440/neanderthalensis.htm
- NOVA: Neanderthals on Trial
Probe the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry. Includes an explanation of how scientists explore humankind's past with mitochondrial DNA.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neanderthals
- Neanderthal Code - National Geographic Channel
Shows how DNA can help answer long standing questions about our closest relatives: Who were the Neanderthals? How human were they? Why did they go extinct?
channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/neanderthal-code-3228
- Rethinking Neanderthals
Smithsonian Magazine article looking into the why these people who fashioned tools, buried their dead, and maybe cared for the sick and even conversed died out.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/neanderthals.html
- The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals - Scientific American
Taking a closer look at genetic data, timelines, paleoclimate data, the invasion of modern humans, and ancient culture to understand the demise of the Neandertals.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-mysterious-downfall
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