Specimens

Gibraltar Skull

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Site:
Forbes Quarry
Lat/Long:
36.14, -5.34
Classifications:
Homo, Homo neanderthalensis
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Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry

Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry

Gibraltar 1 is the specimen name of a Neanderthal skull, also known as the Gibraltar Skull found at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar and presented to the Gibraltar Scientific Society by its secretary, Lieutenant Edmund Henry Réné Flint on 3 March 1848. Its discovery predates that of the Neanderthal type specimen.

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