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These people left a so-called “hashtag” in Gorham’s Cave. The remains of several dozen of these people were found amid clumps of pollen in Shanidar (10[1])4. (10[1])These people are associated with the Mousterian industry, in which knapping is used to produce stone tools from a prepared (10[1])core in the Levallois technique. (10[1])A fossil nicknamed “Denny” is the offspring of a Denisovan father and a mother from these people. (10[1]-5[1])A discovery in Divje Babe in Slovenia ignited controversy over whether these people created music. (10[1])Research conducted by Svante Pääbo suggests significant interbreeding between this species and modern humans. For 10 points, name this hominid, extinct since about 40,000 years ago, that is named after a valley in Germany. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Neanderthals [or Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis]
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