Neanderthal

Neanderthal, a wildly romantic valley between Düsseldorf and Elberfeld in Rhenish Prussia. In a limestone cave in this valley was found in 1857 the skeleton of a prehistoric man, and the peculiar formation of the skull induced several archaeologists to regard it as typical of a separate race of ancient cave-dwellers. Other authorities explain the abnormality as caused by disease during the lifetime of the individual.