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To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.09.001 Byline: Jean-Jacques Hublin (a), Darlene Weston (b)(a), Philipp Gunz (a), Mike Richards (a), Wil Roebroeks (c), Jan Glimmerveen (c), Luc Anthonis (d) Abstract: In 2001, a portion of human frontal bone was discovered in sediments extracted from the bottom of the North Sea, 15km off the coast of the Netherlands. The extraction zone is located in the so-called Zeeland Ridges area located at 51[degrees]40' northern latitude and 3[degrees]20' eastern longitude. The specimen was dredged up from sediments containing Late Pleistocene faunal remains and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts, including well-finished small handaxes and Levallois flakes. The details of the supraorbital morphology, as well as the quantitative assessment of the shape of the external surface of the squama using traditional and 3D geometric morphometrics, unambiguously assign the Zeeland Ridges frontal bone to Homo neanderthalensis. Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis indicate that the Zeeland Ridges hominin, like other Neandertals, was highly carnivorous and does not show evidence for the consumption of aquatic foods. A lesion on the outer table and diploic layer of the bone in the area of the supratoral sulcus can be interpreted as the result of an intradiploic epidermoid cyst, a type of neoplasm diagnosed for the first time in Neandertal remains. So far, the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal is the first Pleistocene fossil hominin found under seawater and the first recorded in the Netherlands. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany (b) Barge's Anthropologica, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands (c) Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands (d) St.-Jozefcollege, Koningin Astridlaan 33, 2300 Turnhout, Belgium Article History: Received 31 December 2008; Accepted 10 August 2009