krapina.com THE
WORLD's LARGEST NEANDERTHAL
FINDING SITE
The Site
(2/3)
In the
sandy deposits of the cave about nine hundred remains of fossilised
human bones were found - the fossil remains belonged to several dozen
different individuals, of different sex, from 2 to 40 years of age.
Most of the (distal parts) of the (humerus - the bone above the elbow)
found in Krapina.
Numerous
fossil remnants of the cave bear, wolf, moose, large deer, warm climate
rhinoceros, wild cattle and many other animals were also found. Over
a thousand pieces of various stone tools and weapons from the paleolytic
era were found, all wittnessing to the material culture of the Krapina
proto-human. This rich locality is approximately 130.000 years old.