Откуда произошло название "Неандерта́лец"?
Neanderthals are named after one of the first sites where their fossils were discovered in the mid-19th century in the Neander Valley, just east of Düsseldorf, at the time in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia (now in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany). The valley itself was named for Joachim Neander, "Neander" being the graecicized form of the surname "Neumann" ("new man").
The German spelling of "Thal" "Valley" was current in the 19th century (contemporary German "Tal").
Neander Valley