Dutch Neanderthal now has a face

In 2009 a fragment of the skull of the first Neanderthal in the Netherlands was presented at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities). That Neanderthal now has a face. The Kennis brothers, world-famous palaeo-artists, interpreted the characteristics of the fossil and other Neanderthal skulls to arrive at the reconstructed face of ‘Krijn’, a young man with a conspicuous lump over his right eyebrow. This lump is the result of a small tumour. In this video curator Luc Amkreutz tells more about the Netherlands’ first Neanderthal. In addition, we see the Kennis & Kennis brothers at work, while they put the finishing touches on the face of Krijn in their studio. Krijn was one of the inhabitants of Doggerland, the prehistoric landscape now under the sea off the Dutch fossil and the reconstruction will be on display together until 31 October 2021 in the museum’s exhibition ’Doggerland’. For more information, look at