Popular Krapina Neanderthal or "dedek Kajbumščak", scientifically known as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, discovered in 1899. when they began geological and palaeontological research in Husnjakovo hill in Krapina. Excavations lasted for six years under the supervision of Professor Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, a famous Croatian geologist, Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. Half-cave in Krapina soon be included in the scientific sites of the world as a rich fossil site on which he raised the largest and richest collection of Neanderthal man. The layers of the cave, about eight feet high, was found about nine hundredths of human fossil bones, belonging to the fossil remains of dozens of individuals of different genders and aged 2-40 years.
They were found numerous fossil remains of cave bears, wolves, moose, giant deer, toplodobnog rhinoceros, wild cattle imnogih other animals. More than a thousand pieces of stone tools recovered from the Paleolithic period, or Old Stone Age, evidence of the material culture of the Krapina Neanderthal. Age of the rich paleontological site corresponds to a period of about 130 000 years. The interpretation of the Krapina site there are different theories that are still the subject of numerous debates paleoanthropological. After several centuries of existence, it is particularly attractive because of its paleontological significance and the large number of fossil specimens. Is protected as the first paleontological nature monument in Croatia, and not surprisingly one of the richest habitats Paleolithic Neanderthal man in the world.
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