The adventurers behind the lost Neanderthal

After more than nine years of research at the Grotte Mandrin site in the Drôme, the archaeologist Ludovic Slimak and his team have confirmed that they have unearthed the remains of a Neanderthal, nicknamed Thorin. According to their study published in the journal Cell Genomics, Thorin lived a little over 40,000 years ago, and was in fact one of the last representatives of an older lineage. A look back at images from this discovery.

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