***Homo neanderthalensis***
Location: Neander Valley, Germany.
Age: 40,000 years B.P.
Material: plaster cast.
Dimensions: length, 258 mm; width, 62 mm; height, 32 mm.
Notes: RLA catalog no. 433rp11 (cast). Left humerus. Type specimen fossil for Neanderthal. Discovered in 1856 and reported in 1857 by Johann Carl Fuhlrott and Hermann Schaaffhausen. Cast made between 1930 and 1952 by Mr. F. O. Barlow of the R. F. Damon & Co., London. From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Model by Aidan Paul.