La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1
Hombre de La Chapelle-aux-Saints
- Date
- 1908 · confidence high
- Place
- La Chapelle-aux-Saints, Corrèze, France
- Credited to
- Louis Bardon, Jean Bouyssonie y Amédée Bouyssonie
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
An almost-complete adult Neanderthal skeleton ("the Old Man"), found in a cave at La Chapelle-aux-Saints (France), key to the study of Neanderthal anatomy and aging.
What it led to
- became the reference Neanderthal specimen for decades
- generated the later-corrected image of the stooped Neanderthal from misread arthritis
- spurred studies on the care of the elderly in Neanderthal societies