[blam]

"Y’know, Neanderthal is just a German word for a guy from the next valley over. "

Yup.

Neander Valley.

[Verginius Rufus]

It was named by one Joachim Neumann.

From The Neanderthals by Friedemann Schrenk and Stephanie Mueller (English translation, 2009, by Phyllis Jestice), p. 2:

"The Neander Valley near Mettmann, the discovery site of the first fossil evidence of primordial humans, was named after the Bremen theologian and hymnographer Joachim Neumann (composer of "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation"). As was fashionable in 1670, he used the Greek translation of his name, "Neander" (Newman), in compliment to antiquity."