Krapina Neanderthals
Neandertales de Krapina
- Date
- 1899-1905 · confidence high
- Place
- Krapina, Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia
- Credited to
- Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Excavation in the Hušnjakovo rock shelter of a collection of more than eight hundred human remains from several dozen Neanderthal individuals. It is one of the largest Neanderthal sites in the world.
It was excavated between 1899 and 1905 and published in 1906. Modern dating gives about 130,000 years. The interpretation of cut marks as cannibalism is still debated.
What it led to
- the 1906 monograph, the first overall synthesis of Neanderthal anatomy
- debates on Neanderthal variation and cannibalism
- Croatian human palaeontology