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Krapina

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Site type:
Cave
Lat/Long:
46.16, 15.86
Country:
Croatia
Classifications:
Homo neanderthalensis
Cultures:
Mousterian
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Krapina Neanderthal site, also known as Hušnjakovo Hill (Croatian: Hušnjakovo brdo) is a Paleolithic archaeological site located near Krapina, Croatia.

At the turn of the 20th century, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger recovered faunal remains as well as stone tools and human remains at the site. Krapina represents the largest known recovery of the human skeletal remains from any Upper Pleistocene site.

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