NOUN
- extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man
Neanderthal skull
How To Use Neandertal In A Sentence
- The results indicate that the bones of the skull would not preclude Neandertals from looking like people you would not greatly comment on (apart from hair and dress style) if they moved in next door to you today.
- The two went on to describe and publish the first findings about Neandertals, launching the field of paleoanthropology—and our enduring fascination with this extinct human relative.
- If you're going to compare "wimpiness" between Neandertals and living men, you have to understand the relative masses. Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine
- The Neandertal DNA sequence falls outside the variation range found in humans today.
- In the past archaeologists and anthropologists believed the Neandertals were uninventive and slow creatures.
- A shovel-shaped upper incisor (a common Neandertal trait) found in an upper level and the fact that stone tools in the upper levels are Mousterian suggest that Neandertals survived in this part of Spain as late as 30,000 B.P. Before now the latest date for a Neandertal was 36,000 B.P., from St. Cesaire in France. The Last Neandertals
- The Neandertal DNA sequence falls outside the variation range found in humans today.
- Excavations at the cave have yielded Mousterian tools, a type traditionally associated with European Neandertals, and ibex bones. The Last Neandertals
- This means that Neandertal makers of Mousterian tools and Aurignacian populations, probably modern humans, coexisted in Western Europe for about 10,000 years. The Last Neandertals
- A glance at the fossil remains of these hominids shows that Neandertal bones are much more robust than those of modern Homo sapiens.