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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Older Neanderthal man in Gibraltar

New findings have been published in Nature magazine

An international team of scientists, most of them Spanish, have discovered evidence of Neanderthal man in Gibraltar.

The find, in the Gorham cave on the rock, would seem to indicate a more modern Neanderthal man was living in the area than previously thought – from the time between 32,000 and 24,000 years ago.

Gibraltar biologist Clive Finlayson has been explaining the find to Nature magazine.