The North Sea (click to enlarge)
A skull fragment dredged from the North Sea back in 2001 has been confirmed to be from a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal male.
The skull was among several fossilized artifacts found several miles off the coast of the Netherlands by Luc Anthonis, a private collector from Belgium.
Chemical analysis on the skull fragment found the ancient man was carnivorous. “Even with this rather limited fragment of skull, it is possible to securely identify this as Neanderthal,” said Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Researchers note that sea levels are much higher now than they were during much of the past 500,000 years, meaning large swathes of the North Sea seabed were once dry land inhabited by many species of mammals.
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