Image: Range of NeanderthalsAColoured

Description: Known Neanderthal range in Europe (blue), Southwest Asia (orange), Uzbekistan (green), and the Altai mountains (violet), as inferred by their skeletal remains (not stone tools). For sources, please see User:Nicolas_Perrault_III/List_of_Neanderthals In the English Channel, Crimea, the Caucasus, Southwest Asia, Uzbekistan, and the Altai Mountains, tiny single-pixel black points indicate sites where Neanderthal bones have been found. In Europe, only one or two single-pixel points per country is depicted. In the English Channel: La Cotte de St-Brelade (Jersey, 13 teeth of single adult) Krijn, Dutch watersIn Crimea: Kiik-Koba Zaskal'nayaIn the Russian Caucasus: MezmaiskayaIn Georgia: Bronze Cave Dzhruchula Ortvale Klde SakaziaIn Armenia: YerevanIn Turkey: Karain Cave (four teeth)In Lebanon: Ksâr 'Akil (teeth and partial maxilla) El Masloukh (Lebanon, one tooth)In Israel and the West Bank: Kebara (Kebara 2 and many others) Shuqba (tooth and cranial fragments) Tabun (nearly complete adult and many others) Ein Qashish (lower limbs) Shovakh (tooth) Amud (nearly complete adult and others)In Syria: Dederiyeh (two infants, among others)In Iraq: Shanidar CaveIn Iran: BisitunIn Uzbekistan: Teshik-Tash (juvenile skeleton) Obi-Rakhmat (skull fragments and teeth)In Asian Russia: Chagyrskaya (partial mandible) Okladnik'ov (humerus and femur) Denisova (genetically identified fragments)Europe has so many Neanderthals, that I am still in the process of indexing them (see User:Nicolas_Perrault_III/List_of_Neanderthals). For a country to be in blue here, a Neanderthal bone must be found on the mainland (thus excluding for the Netherlands the Neanderthal found in the water). In Greece, although the Peloponnesus is connected to the mainland, and indeed is part of it, only that peninsula is coloured. This is to show that there is a gap in the Balkans. To include a country in Europe on this map, only one example is required (these are also represented by black single-pixel dots on the map): France: Arcy-sur-Cure Britain: Bontnewydd Belgium: Spy Germany: Neandertal Spain: Sidrón Portugal: Figueira Brava Italy: Monte Circeo Switzerland: Cotencher Hungary: Subalyuk (in Hungarian) Czechia: Kůlna Slovakia: Gánovce Poland: Stajnia Cave Croatia: Krapina and Vindija Serbia: Pešturina Montenegro: Crvena stijena (in Bosnian) Bulgaria: Kozarnika Romania: Ohaba-Ponor Greece (Peloponnesus): Kalamakia, Mani PeninsulaThe following countries, as of the cited dates, had no Neanderthal remains. Among other sources, this is according to the Catalogue of Fossil Hominids (1970), and an Update to this Catalogue for ex-USSR countries (1992). It is possible that Neanderthals were discovered more recently in these countries, but I found no article to that effect. Netherlands: 2009 (Many news sources claimed the "first Dutch Neanderthal" in 2009 when Krijn was said a Neanderthal. But this was not on the mainland.) Austria: 1969 Luxemburg: 1969 Ukraine (excluding Crimea): 1992
Title: Range of NeanderthalsAColoured
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Author: Nilenbert, Nicolas Perrault III
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