How far north did the Neanderthals go?

Archaeologists are disagreeing about whether or not the Neanderthals travelled all the way up to Scandinavia. A new research project seeks to settle the dispute

The National Museum of Denmark houses a cast of a pile of seemingly insignificant bones.

They are neither from dinosaurs nor mammoths, but from ordinary deer. What’s special about them is that since 1955 they have been regarded as evidence that the Neanderthals moved on from Germany all the way up to Denmark.

However, this research-based conclusion – that only a food-loving, bone-breaking Neanderthal could have worked up these old roe deer bones – was recently dismissed by a research team from Aarhus University that specialises in genetic engineering.

So the question remains: did the Neanderthals ever make it all the way north to Denmark, or did they go no farther north than to Germany?

The reliable find discovered nearest to the Scandinavian countries comes from Lehringen in Germany, only 300 kilometres south of the Danish border, explains PhD student Trine Kellberg Nielsen, who was part of the research team that eliminated the roe deer bone theory. [...] ScienceNordic

Actualización 05-04-13. ¿Llegaron hasta Dinamarca los neandertales?
Los arqueólogos están en desacuerdo acerca de si los neandertales viajaron o no hasta Escandinavia. Un nuevo proyecto de investigación tiene por objeto resolver el conflicto de una vez por todas.


El Museo Nacional de Dinamarca alberga un elenco de huesos aparentemente insignificantes. No son de dinosaurios ni de mamuts, sino de ciervo común. Lo que es especial acerca de ellos es que desde 1955 han sido considerados como prueba de que los neandertales se trasladaron desde Alemania hasta Dinamarca...