Product Description
Our Plastic Neanderthal Woman Our small plastic Neanderthal toy is just the right size replica for your prehistoric life shoebox diorama. This little cavewoman model will fit in a shoe box along with other examples of extinct life from the Earth's past. Add a cave man, a few plastic animals, rocks, plants, grass, make a river or stream from anything that strikes your imagination, and there you go - a scene of life on our planet as it might have been thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. Our plastic toy cave people are made of solid plastic and are quite durable. Be sure to take a look at our other prehistoric figurines, including other Neanderthals.
Neanderthals were an alternate (and now extinct) evolution of human beings who lived in what is now Europe and central Asia from 600,000 years to as modern as 24,500 years ago. Neanderthals are scientifically classified as both a subspecies of human (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and as an entirely separate human species (Homo neanderthalensis). This unique dual classification reflects a split amongst scientists regarding Neanderthals' relationship to modern humans. Originally depicted by both popular culture and the scientific community as dark-skinned, hairy, over-muscled brutes, new evidence now suggests that Neanderthals were more likely light-skinned with no more facial or body hair than modern humans. While Neanderthals were significantly stronger than modern humans, examinations of Neanderthal skulls show that the cranial capacity of Neanderthals were as large as modern humans, allowing the theory that Neanderthal brains were at least as large, and possibly larger, than modern human brains. Far from thoughtless brutes, it is now concluded that Neanderthals existed in large social groups, had a language, and were capable of producing advanced tools and solving problems.
