A collapsed half-cave in a sandstone bluff above the Krapinica river in the Hrvatsko Zagorje, north of Zagreb. Between 1899 and 1905 Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger dug out more than 800 Neanderthal bones here along with animal remains and stone tools, and published the first serious monographs on them; it remains the richest single recovery of Upper Pleistocene human remains known. Dating by electron spin resonance and uranium series puts the deposit at about 120,000 to 130,000 years. A museum opened at the site in 1952 and was replaced by the Museum of Neanderthals, built into the hillside, which is among the best evolution museums in Europe. The park around it is set with life-sized Neanderthals and the animals they hunted, placed where the excavation actually found them.
The largest collection of Neanderthal remains found anywhere · Pleistocene, ~130,000 years
This ground is protected. Photograph it, record it, leave it where it lies. On US federal land the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act 2009 makes collecting vertebrate fossils an offence, and penalties are real.
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