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Krijn

North Sea, Netherlands

Krijn (Dutch pronunciation: [krɛin]) is the common name of a Neanderthal fossil discovered off the Dutch coast. The discovery is most notable for being the first evidence of a Neanderthal presence in the Netherlands. The fossil is estimated at 100,000-40,000 BP. The skull fragment was recovered from the North Sea in 2001 off the coast of Zeelandic Flanders (province of Zeeland). It was first publicly described in 2009.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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