Question about a museum guide in Rome who pointed at a jawbone and called it a family member

Margaret King · 2026-10-11T15:40:04.213195+00:00

I was in Rome last spring at the Museum of Civilization and the guide, an older guy named Paolo, pointed at a Neanderthal jawbone with a toothpick still stuck in a cavity and said we share more with them than most people admit. My grandpa used to drag me to dig sites as a kid and back then every find was just a rock in a case, no stories, no faces. Now I see the little details like healed bones and pollen grains and it feels way more human. Does anyone else feel like the small personal stuff hits harder than the big famous artifacts?

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