My information about it didn't come from wikipedia, it comes from years and years of reading popular accounts of the evolution of humans by the scientists involved. And from studying languages and linguistics.
Bob > Bob W & Ecke, > You know Wikipedia is just story telling, not authoritatively factual. > Regards. Bob S. > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM, eckinator <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2010/6/14 Ralf R. Radermacher <[email protected]>: > >> Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Neanderthal is the Neander Valley. 'Neander' is an > >>> invented word made up by a chap called Neumann which in English is > New Man. > >> > >> Oh really? > >> > >> Silly old me had always thought that the Neandertal, which > >> is (quite appropriately) located near Dusseldorf, had its name from > the > >> river Neander flowing through it. > > > > Bob is apparently right: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neandertal#Namen > > I do wonder though if Joachim was the first ever Neumann to call > himself Neander > > Cheers > > Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
