Neandertal partial skull, Germany

 Skull fragment of a Neanderthal from Neuwarendorf, Germany.

Found 1995 by the private Collector J. Gora in a Sandmine at the Kottrup Lake, Neuwarendorf near Munster, Germany, in company with bones of pleistocene mammals and middlepaleolithic stonetools. The finds come from a layer 16 meters below todayÂŽs ground waterline.The fragment is from the right parietal bone and shows a lot of similarities with the name giving find from the Neanderthal in 1856. Interesting is the typical form and the archaic impressions of the brain arteries into the skullbone, wich is not known from H. sapiens. An unregular thickening and specific holes in the inner plate show that this 20-30 year old Neanderthal had suffered from an head injury with a following inflamation (Osteomylitis). He lived between 115 000 to 30 000 years ago in an interglacial phase of the last ice age.ItÂŽs one of the most northly found examples of this hominids in Europe.

 

This cast is handcoloured and made of Epoxi. The colours may be a little differend than shown on the pictures. The handcraft makes every cast unique.