In the summer of 1856, in the Neander Valley, just east of Düsseldorf, a group of German miners entered a cave and began doing what miners do: They dug. To their surprise, they unearthed pieces of what appeared to be a very old human skeleton. Word of the discovery soon reached a local naturalist, who brought it to the attention of the anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen. Might the good professor be able to take a look at the bones and date the skeleton?
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