130,000 year old Neanderthal skull encased in stalagmites, found in a sinkhole in a cave in Italy

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image showing 130,000 year old Neanderthal skull encased in stalagmites, found in a sinkhole in a cave in Italy

bertie4prez on February 8th, 2021 at 21:53 UTC »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamura_Man

CatsEyeNebulous on February 8th, 2021 at 22:00 UTC »

Poor guy..

THE_GR8_MIKE on February 8th, 2021 at 23:45 UTC »

... dating of the calcite has revealed that the bones are between 128,000 and 187,000 years old.

Altamura Man is one of the most complete Paleolithic skeletons ever to be discovered in Europe as "even the bones inside the nose are still there" and as of 2016 it represents the oldest sample of Neanderthal DNA to have been sequenced successfully.

Neat.