Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

The sculpture of an ancient man is based on archaeological finds of bones and used current anthropological knowledge and criminal identification techniques to produce a model of a human of the changeover phase from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. He is deliberately modeled as a thinker — the implements on display in this room show that he certainly used mental power to survive.

In the State Museum of Prehistory Halle (Landesmuseum for Vorgeschichte Halle) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.