Does anyone have an approximation of the number of neanderthal remains found worldwide? I'd imagine it's in the tune of thousands, but I'm not sure how many thousands. Does anyoen have a rough but reasonable ball-park figure, or any idea where I could find one? Thanks Matthew Prouse @ Murdoch University
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] [Matthew Prouse] wrote... > >Does anyone have an approximation of the number of >neanderthal remains found worldwide? I'd imagine it's in >the tune of thousands, but I'm not sure how many thousands. > >Does anyoen have a rough but reasonable ball-park figure, >or any idea where I could find one? Don't know the source of their data [well, they do say "Data principally from Donald Johanson & Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language (Simon & Schuster, 1996)] but http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.html#chart gives "500" as their estimate for number of neandertal individuals known from remains. They say about such numbers: "Numbers in white indicate the approximate count of distinct individuals in each species from whom fossil remains survive. This is considerably smaller than the number of fossil "specimens," because a specimen can be a single tooth, bone or bone fragment." Other info on neandertals: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/ http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/hfs9.html http://sapphire.indstate.edu/~ramanank/ http://www.neanderthal- modern.com/index.html cheers
Those website have been very useful however does anyone know how many German Neanderthal invdividuals have been represented from remains?
