The Neanderthal Centenary

Gunter Behm-Blanke, G.H.R. von Koenigswald, and Abbe H. Breuil examine the Ehringsdorf fossil remains.

In the summer of 1956, the Foundation collaborated with the city of Dusseldorf, Germany, to convene an international symposium marking the 100th anniversary of "the discovry of the classical Neanderthal man."

Organized by G.H.R. von Koenigsward, Wilhelm Gieseler, and Horst Sieloff, the congress drew many of the world's most eminent anthropologists, archaeologists, palaeontologists, and geologists to the Lobbecke Museum and generated wide coverage from the German press.

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