In 1856, in the valley of the Neander river near Dusseldorf in Germany, some miners discovered the bones of a previously unknown creature.
These creatures were humanoid, but not quite the same as our own human species.
The newly-discovered creatures have become known as Neanderthals after the place they were found*.
Unfortunately the original site was dynamited out of
existence by the miners, but the people of the Neander valley are still proud of
their links to early man. There’s a museum:
and the museum shop even sells something called Neanderthal cordial.
I wish I could try it!
It's the most obvious question of all and I never asked it! Shows how intellectually curious I am...very interesting too about US spelling.
ReplyDeleteBut you can have too much of intellectually curious people can't you?
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