La Ferrassie 1
- Date
- 1909 · confidence high
- Place
- La Ferrassie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
- Credited to
- Louis Capitan y Denis Peyrony
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
La Ferrassie 1 is a male Neanderthal skeleton found at the La Ferrassie site in France, with the most complete Neanderthal skull known, key to the study of the species' anatomy.
What it led to
- main reference for Neanderthal anatomy
- studies on Neanderthal cranial capacity
- advances in French paleoanthropology
- comparisons with other fossils such as Amud 1