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One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Discoveries: Continuity and Discontinuity

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The original Neanderthal fossil was discovered in Mettmann near Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1856 and the present volume is based on the conference that I had the honor of organizing in July 2006 with Professors Wighart von Koenigswald and Thomas Litt to commemorate the 150th anniversary of this discovery. It is in Bonn, at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum that the holotype of the Neanderthal taxon is kept, and it was at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in that same city that the conference was held.

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     Symposium 1: “Outside Europe and Neanderthal Origins”, conveners: S. Condemi and F. Schrenk;Symposium 2: “Neanderthal Palaeoenvironment”, conveners: W.v. Koenigswald and T. Litt;Symposium 3: “Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology”, conveners: N. Conard and J. Richter; Symposium 4: “Neanderthal Anatomy, Growth, Adaptation and Physical Variations”, conveners: S. Condemi and W. Henke; Symposium 5: “Neanderthals and Modern Humans”, conveners: G-C. Weniger and J. Orschiedt.

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Condemi, S. (2011). One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Discoveries: Continuity and Discontinuity. In: Condemi, S., Weniger, GC. (eds) Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0492-3_2

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