For a very long time, he has been regarded as a little monkey, as the missing link but now, scientists have proven that he was a real human being. He was clever and had a conscience; he could make tools and buried his deads.

Pre- Neandertalians appeared around 800 000 years ago in Europe, his isolation due to ice in the East made him develop the specifities of Neandertal men: short body, oval skull, big eyebrows, no forehead, no chin…

Some 40 000 years ago, a climate warming enabled the moving between Europe and Asia; Neandertal and Cro Magnon could have lived together for about 10 000 years and they could have interbred at some point.

Neandertal disappeared 30 000 years ago.

Why? Nobody knows! There are only theories; the guided tour will tell you more about the DNA and the reason of the disappearance…

Dessin Emmanuel Roudier