Word: neanderthalic
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3. Penicillin. 60. Skull and jawbones which had long been attributed to a very ancient man turned out to belong to a relatively modern ape and a relatively modern man. Exposed as a hoax was the: 1. Neanderthal man.
Dr. Arnold's apparatus should extend the "Carbon 14 calendar" back from 23,000 to 42,000 B.C. and spot, within 37 years, the date, for instance, when slope-browed Neanderthal men roasted a wooly rhinoceros.
To judge from the attachments for the muscles of the nape of his neck, Saldanha man must have walked with a pronounced stoop. He had somewhat less room for brain than Neanderthal man, who is generally considered an unpresentable uncle of modern man, but he had the wit to make...
*Since early man was scarce and not often fossilized, anthropologists often spin theories around meager finds. The giant men of China, for instance, are "known" only through large, humanlike teeth, most of them found in native apothecary shops. Many anthropologists deny that such giants ever existed. Other early humans are...
Under the curious eyes of the cave's living tenants, the shaft sank, foot after foot, toward the dimmest beginnings of human history. Subtle changes in bits of stone, covered by the garbage of ancient man, told of the shifts of culture. Solecki spent many feet of digging in...