Vindija Cave is an archaeological site associated with Neanderthals and modern humans, located in the municipality of Donja Voća, northern Croatia.

These include a thinner and less projecting brow ridge, reduced facial size, and narrower front teeth.

[4] Though some have put these differences down to the small size of the Vindija individuals, a study conducted in 1995 established that the Vindija Neanderthals, though small, were of comparable size to more morphologically classic Neanderthals such as La Ferrassie 2, Shanidar 1 and 4, and Tabun 1.

[7] In 2017, researchers from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit applied a new technique using AMS ultrafiltration based on the extraction of hydroxyproline to directly date several samples from Vindija Cave.

Their direct AMS dating results show that the Neanderthal finds at Vindija are older than 44,000 BP.

[8] This was confirmed by Slon et al. (2017) who tested a soil sample from Vindija for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).