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Neanderthal man

Static visualization of part of the skull and jaw of the human type from Nesher Ramla. Credit: Tel Aviv University

In the Nesher quarries in Ramla, a species of pre-Neanderthal man was discovered that was unknown to science

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The bones of an ancient human type unknown to science who lived in our region until about 130 thousand years ago were discovered in excavations conducted at the prehistoric site "Nesher Ramla", near the city of Ramla. As usual, the new man was named based on the place of his discovery - "Eagle Man Ramla type". Apparently a remnant of a unique population from the Middle Pleistocene that has not been identified until now
The leg bones known as 'pillar 9' in the cave of Pilgrim. Photo: Prof. Arala Hobars, Hebrew University.

Leg fragments found in Merat Amud were identified as the remains of a Neanderthal woman who lived in our area

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Skull of a Neanderthal who was hit in the head. Evidence of ancient violence. Photo: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Were other human species the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?

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A photo of Manot Cave with the marking of the area where some of the teeth were found. Photo: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz

Researchers from Tel Aviv University found teeth of a modern man and a Neanderthal man from about 40,000 years ago in Menot Cave in the Galilee

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Skull of a modern man (back) and a Neanderthal man. Photo: shutterstock

Did diseases spread by Homo sapiens eventually cause the extinction of the Neanderthals?

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Findings from the Ein Kashish excavation. Above - animal bones. Below - items carved from flint. Photo - Prof. Arala Hobars

The Neanderthals lived in stable settlement systems for a long time before disappearing from our region

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Neanderthal man tries to hunt a mammoth. Illustration: shutterstock

Neanderthals and mammoths shared a genetic load of adaptation to cold conditions

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Neanderthal man. From a 2009 Russian textbook on human evolution. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com Photo: shutterstock

On the Neanderthals and their extinction

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DNA tests made it possible to discover a mixture of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

What caused the extinction of the Neanderthals?

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Illustration: Charles R. Knight, 1920.

"Cavemen"? Not necessarily

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A poster showing the theme of the 2017 Dan David Prize: Archeology and Natural Sciences. From the Dan David Prize website

Two of the researchers who strengthened the connection between the sciences and archeology won the Dan David prize for the dimension of past time

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Prof. Israel Finkelstein, winner of the corresponding prize in 2006, described the revolution passing through the world of archeology and how two researchers from the natural sciences won the Dan David Prize for 2017 in the past tense dimension in the field of archaeology. In recent years, the relationship between archeology and the natural sciences has been getting tighter 
Neanderthal man. Illustration: shutterstock

Modern man has lost genes that were on the Y chromosome of the Neanderthals

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Modern man next to Neanderthal man. Illustration: shutterstock

Why was the thorax of the Neanderthal man different in structure from the modern man?

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Neanderthal skull, La Chapelle-au-Sainte, France. From Wikipedia

Ancient Burial / Kate Wong

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Brigitte Alex examines samples in the D-REAMS laboratory at the Weizmann Institute headed by Dr. Elisabetta Burato.

Special to the Science site: Did Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens unite in Israel?

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Much of the Neanderthal genome is preserved in modern human populations. Neanderthal man. Illustration: shutterstock

Neanderthal lineages reconstructed from the modern human genome

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Neanderthal man. From a 2009 Russian textbook on human evolution. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com Photo: shutterstock

Archaeologists have rediscovered the lost home of the last Neanderthals in Western Europe

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Bones of a Neanderthal who lived 120 years ago in the area that is today Croatia, with a cancerous tumor on them. Photo: Janet Monge et al

A 120-year-old cancerous tumor was found in Neanderthal bones

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Australopithecus, discovered in 1925, was generally seen as more ape than man, and only after the Second World War was it "elevated" to the rank of hominid. Photo: Wikipedia/okologix

Neanderthal man

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Ludovich Slimek and Pavel Pavlov, two of the researchers who discovered remains of Neanderthal culture in northern Russia

Did the last Neanderthals live close to the Arctic Circle?

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

who is who

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

Decoding the genome has yielded evidence of hybridization between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal man

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The Disappeared Neighbors: Neanderthal DNA and Us

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Research confirmed - there were three subgroups of the Neanderthals

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