Lamalunga 1Locality: Lamalunga Cave, Altamura, southern ItalyDescription: Currently in situ complete skeleton (to date, only the shoulder blade has been removed)Age: 170,000 - 130,000 years agoSpecies: Homo neanderthalensisAltamura 1 Site Altamura. Locality Grotta di Lamalunga. Surface/in situ In situ. Date of discoveryOctober 1993. Finders Members of Centro Altamurano Ricerche Speleologiche (C.A.R.S.), the local speleological society and Eligio Vacca of the University of Bari. Unit N/A. Horizon N/A. Bed/member N/A. Formation N/A. Group N/A. Nearest overlying dated horizon N/A. Nearest underlying dated horizon N/A. Geological age Estimated to be Middle Pleistocene. Developmental age Adult. Presumed sex? Male. Brief anatomical description Fairly complete skeleton covered with flowstone. Announcement Pesce Delfino and Vacca 1993.Initial description Pesce Delfino and Vacca 1993. Photographs/line drawings and metrical dataPesce Delfino and Vacca 1993, 1996, Vacca and Pesce Delfino 2004. Detailed anatomical description N/A. Initial taxonomic allocation Homo neanderthalensis. Taxonomic revisions N/A. Current conventional taxonomic allocation H. neanderthalensis. Informal taxonomic category Pre-modern Homo. Significance The skeleton purportedly exhibits a mix of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human characteristics, but it is difficult to be sure because its detailed morphology is obscured by a thick layer of flowstone. Location of original The skeleton is still in situ in Grotta di Lamalunga except for a portion of the scapula that has been removed forDNA analysis.► SOCIAL MEDIA AND LINKS!• Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Primnathis• Blog: https://primnathis.com/• Podcasts:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reframed-origins-season-one/id964666622?uo=4Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iut8VsuMgIFCIiV46lcpwGoogle Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMTM3Mjg4My9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVkCastbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id3551625Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1570812Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3053550Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/reframed-origins-season-1-56770JioSaavn: https://www.jiosaavn.com/shows/Reframed-Origins---Season-One/1/XajTsfEpIUE_Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/reframed-origins-our-evolution-refined