Gibraltar 1

Gibraltar Skull

Common name	Gibraltar Skull
Species	Homo neanderthalensis
Age	Unknown
Place discovered	Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar
Date discovered	c. 1848
Discovered by	Unknown

Gibraltar 1 is the name given to a Neanderthal skull, also known as the Gibraltar Skull, which was discovered at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar. The skull was presented to the Gibraltar Scientific Society by its secretary, Lieutenant Edmund Henry Réné Flint, on 3 March 1848.^[1][2] This discovery predates the finding of the Neanderthal type specimen.