Neanderthals: we always believed they were just knuckle-dragging apemen, that they were the inferior prototype to us, modern humans, and then about 40,000 years ago they shuffled off into extinction. But now the latest scientific research is showing that the Neanderthals didn’t really disappear; in fact, they live on inside us. Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors I, BBC 2018
Our Neanderthal heritage still has a profound impact on us. ibid.
Neanderthals were stronger, smarter, faster, better looking and much, much more like us than we’d ever thought. ibid.
Neanderthals would have been very handy in a fight. ibid.
They made their own tools. ibid.
Neanderthals wore jewellery and make up. ibid.
In the last ten years new evidence has come to light that suggest that there is that there is art much much older than this … If it’s true that Neanderthals were making art, it changes all our ideas of how art began. Antony Gormley: How Art Began, BBC 2019
Gibraltar: An iconic landmark in sight of two continents – Europe and Africa. Bettany Hughes’ Treasures of the World s1e3: Gibraltar
The lost world of the Neanderthals who lived in the 200 caves which honeycomb the Rock. Ever since a groundbreaking discovery was made here back in 1848, Gibraltar has offered a rare glimpse into the lives of our prehistoric forebears. ibid.
The Neanderthals were cultural, spiritual people. ibid.