where does the term neanderthal
neanderthal. Primitive humans which lived throughout much of Europe, but particulary in France, and Germany. The term Neanderthal, derives from the Neanderthal Valley in Germany, where the first fossils were found. near extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age Europe between circa 120,000 and 35,000 years ago, with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges. Previously thought extinct but discovered to be living in mostly uninhabitable parts of australia such as the Northern Territory.