Neandertal is near the city of Düsseldorf (middle left on the map above, between Essen and Cologne). Neanderthal is the Old German spelling.
I did the translation below from the second part of the "Spiegel-Online" article. It gives an idea of the level of controversy the German anthropologists are facing.
I am definitely not an Anthropologist, so my translation of terms or science specific descriptions may not be correct. For the purpose of just posting here I didn't want to take lot of time to study the exact terminolgy.
I hope that some of you will find it easier to figure out than 'Google' or 'Babelfish'.
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More than anything else, however, the researcher was apparently on war-footing with his C 14 device. Protsch nevertheless scrambled to get the analysis of the noblest and most exciting anthropoid discoveries. The professor examined the Neanderthal man of Hahnöfersand in 1980. When some colleagues still had doubts, the carbon-acrobat pulled out another measurement, which had allegedly been made by his friends from California. This one was also over 35 000 years.
Astonishment gripped the guild at that time. A Neanderthal man had never been discovered so far to the north before. The Helms Museum in Hamburg rejoiced and lured many thousands of visitors. Posters show the supposed "oldest Hamburger" as a flat-nosed, powerful, forest gnome.
Now a hangover mood reigns. " Hahni", as some call him, was not a diluvial primitive, but a modern person who had hunted ducks on the Elbe during the borderline to the agriculture culture 7500 years ago. The Museum person in charge, Ralf Busch opines, "We were not amused"
The anthropologist Günter Bräuer had a long face last week, too. In learned essays he had interpreted the fossil as a robust half-breed between Neanderthal man and homo sapiens. For him, Hahni was the central piece of evidence in his "hybrid theory", which says that the two anthropoid types had sex with each other. His commentary: "Pity, I was wrong."
What a disgrace! But Bräuer excuses himself: Protsch came from the University of California ", from the smithy of experts". Moreover, his institute has been "showered with money".
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 Neanderthal from Hahnöfersand on a poster of the Hamburger Helms-Museum: "Pity, I was wrong"
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The current doctoral candidate is no longer happy with his job, either. For two years he has been sitting on a mountain of bone remnants which originate from three to four individuals, and were discovered in the vicinity of an extinct volcano in the eastern Eifel by the Coblenz administrative offices for the preservation of historical monuments. According to Protsch they are 27 000 years old.
No one in Frankfurt wishes to believe that now. The material is in the C 14 laboratory of Kiel at present and is being examined. One of the teeth has a cavity. Just that makes one suspicious: For the nature lads from the ice age who didn't know what sugar was, that plague was rare.
In view of the many suspicious circumstances the experts are now pressing for a new analysis of the "Lady of Kelsterbach", also. It is one of the key fossils in German Stone Age lore.
In 1952 the skull had been discovered in a Hessian gravel pit. Protsch dated it, under the laboratory number Fra 5, as having an age of 31,200 years.
It seemed as if the man had again held a record bone in his hand. The remains, he reported proudly in the technical journal "Ice Age and the Present", are Europe's "oldest directly dated hominid fossil". Because the research duo Terberger and Street harbored doubts, they asked for a test speciman. But Protsch refused.
The university management is now attempting that with force . In the presence of the legal department, the janitor broke open the green safe in which the institute director stores the Fossils.
Surprise: The safe was half looted. The skull of Kelsterbach had disappeared.
"Spiegel-Online"...."Die Regeln mache ich" (2).....August 16, 2004....Matthias Schulz
Translated by longjack