2. By: Hannah Barrett Period 3-Ms.Fellows

3. Neanderthals lived in Europe and a small part of modern Asia. They moved about with the moving of ice age glaciers.

4. Physical Characteristics

5. Burial Practices Hunting tools

6. A Neanderthals diet consisted of meat. This meat was probably mammoth. Some scientists have suggested that the Neanderthals died out because they did not eat a lot of plants.

7. DNA Facts Genetic similaritys and differences between Homo neanderthalensis Homo sapiens

8. Homo neanderthalensisHomo sapiens Mostly lived In EuropeMigrated all over the world 230,000 years ago they appeared90,000 years ago they appeared Buried their dead

9. Theory number one

10. Theory number two

11. I believe that Homo neanderthalenisis died out because they only ate meat. They couldn’t adjust to the vegetarian life style. They did not adapt well to food changes. This is may be another reason why the species Homo neandertalensis died out.

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