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
3D Scans

This is one of the few early human fossils that was found before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species".

3/4 view of Homo neanderthalensis, Gilbraltrar skull
Homo neanderthalensis; Gibraltar
(Tyler Evans)