These images are copyrighted to the photographers identified. These images are for your news organization's NEWS USE only. Do not syndicate, sell, or redistribute in any further way. Credit line must accompany each photo. Man in the white shirt stands at original cave entrance.
Modern shelter protects the ongoing excavation.
Vertical strings indicate the spatial grid used to control the positions of the neanderthal bone fragments found at the level of the excavators. Finger for scale. This fragment joined two others, and showed clearly that flesh was removed before it was broken open by a stone hammer, upon an anvil stone in the cave. These butchery activities left cutmarks, anvil striations, and pits and scalloped edges from the hammerstone impacts. He is kneeling on the horizon that contained the deer and neanderthal bone fragments and stone tools.