Neanderthal Vocal Tracts Reconstructed After 30,000 years

Robert McCarthy of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton reconstructed Neanderthal vocal tracts to simulate their voice with a computer synthesizer. McCarthy used the fossil record to help his reconstruction of the Caveman's voice. Simple sounds were made, but McCarthy hopes to create a whole Neanderthal sentence. McCarthy spoke at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Ohio this month.