Gibraltar 1
Exhibit Item
Site:
Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar
Year of Discovery:
Discovered by:
Captain Edmund Flint, a British officer with the Royal Navy
Age:
Between 70,000 and 45,000 years old
Species:
Homo neanderthalensis
This is one of the few early human fossils that was found before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species".

Homo neanderthalensis; Gibraltar
(Tyler Evans)