Introduction

This project aims to utilise the existing digital collection of Neandertal and AMH fossils which are housed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and to showcase the reconstructed Spy skeleton to highlight Belgian scientific and cultural heritage as well the current state of the art research in Belgium. There are four aspects to the project: 1) improvement of existing 'lhpFusionBox' software to make this programme fully adapted to the needs of paleoanthropologists, 2)the creation of a serious game using the reconstructed Spy II skeleton and body, 3)to prepare the reconstructed 3D Spy II Neandertal and other Neandertal fossil specimens for 3D printing and then place these fossils online and freely available 4) to create an interactive website which will serve as an educational experience on Neandertals, who are often portrayed in the public as cavemen, stupid brutish and more ape like than modern humans.