Marcellin Boule’s Old Man: A Neanderthal Tale
Boule and the Old Man One day in early August, 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. Further digging revealed a relatively completely skeleton of Neanderthal, curled up in a fossilized fetal position. The find occurred near the town to La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France, and was soon sent to the French paleontologist…