Mettmann is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany, east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal. It is the capital of the Mettmann district.
The district contains the Neandertal, a river valley which has named the Neanderthal Man, a species of human that went extinct around 40,000 years ago.
- Neanderthal Museum. A museum dedicated to the Neanderthal Man, Homo Neanderthalensis, which populated much of Europe and the Middle East until it was displaced by Homo Sapiens, and went extinct around 40,000 BC. See paleontology and Prehistoric Europe for perspective.
Neanderthal Museum. A museum dedicated to the Neanderthal Man, Homo Neanderthalensis, which populated much of [[Europe]] and the [[Middle East]] until it was displaced by Homo Sapiens, and went extinct around 40,000 BC. See [[paleontology]] and [[Prehistoric Europe]] for perspective.