What are the oldest Neanderthal remains found?

Answer 1

"The oldest Neanderthal fossils in hand date only to 200,000 B.P., and the oldest Homo sapiens to about 100,000.

The estimate of 300,000 years is from when there was a supposed common ancestor if memory serves."

Nope, there are firmly dated Neandertal remains to 350,000 years ago.

Answer 2

from http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/2000/0117/cover4.html

The oldest Neanderthal fossils in hand date only to 200,000 B.P., and the oldest Homo sapiens to about 100,000.

The estimate of 300,000 years is from when there was a supposed common ancestor if memory serves. The problem is that Erectus may have turned slowly to H. Heidelbergensis which theoretically turned slowly to Neanderthal. The actual earliest examples would therefore be subjective even if they had the earlier fossils. It would be an arbitrary date.

Answer 3

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record and were replaced in Europe by anatomically modern forms, according to anthropologists. Neanderthals are known to have inhabited Europe and western Asia from about 200,000 years to 30,000 years ago. The original explanation of Neanderthal anatomy was one of a primitive early human based on a flawed reconstruction of the nearly entire skeleton of an elderly Neanderthal male found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, named "The Old Man", according to scientists.

Answer 4

I used to be a creationist footsoldier about 25 years ago. Maybe things have changed, but at that time, they would say that "A Neanderthal dressed in a suit would not be noticed walking down the street", they were so similar to modern humans. They also would quote mine some appraisal that Neanderthal skeletons had been people with arthritis.

Answer 5

1987: New thermoluminescence resulted from Palestine fossils date Neanderthals at Kebara to 60,000 BP

Answer 6

I believe the date range for neandertals is from about 300,000 to 30,000 bc...

i dont know of any examples offhand of the oldest ones, but since that is the date range, i assume there are examples... somewhere... somewhere over the rainbow... lol

Answer 7

not all early man is neaderthal if you mean oldest human remains they date back about 3.2million years known as lucy it was our earliest ancestetors. Neaderthal was much later 350,00 years ago.

Answer 8

Skeletons