A common descendant of (*) homo heidelbergensis along with modern humans, they may have interbred or fought with homo sapiens near the end of the Ice Age.
One of the more easterly discoveries of this group was at the Kebara Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel. This group used the Levallois technique to produce Mousterian tools and was named for the German valley where their fossils were first discovered in 1856. A common descendant of (*) homo heidelbergensis along with modern humans, they may have interbred or fought with homo sapiens near the end of the Ice Age. For 10 points, name this pre-modern hominid which possessed a large browridge and inhabited Europe until about thirty thousand years ago.
One of the more easterly discoveries of this group was at the Kebara Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel.
Neanderthals