Researchers have excavated additional Neandertal fossils at a demolished cave site in western Germany where the first known Neandertal skeleton was unearthed in 1856. The new finds come from cave sediment that had been dug up and cast aside during the original dig, say Ralf W. Schmitz of the University of Tubingen in Germany and his colleagues.
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