mental protuberance

Mental foramen, paired, lateral to the mental protuberance on the body of mandible.

Another anatomical difference between Neanderthals and modern humans is the former's lack of a mental protuberance (the point at the tip of the chin).

While some Neanderthal individuals do possess a mental protuberance, their chins never show the inverted T-shape of modern humans.

Lack of a protruding chin (mental protuberance; although later specimens possess a slight protuberance)

This ridge divides below and encloses a triangular eminence, the mental protuberance, the base of which is depressed in the center but raised on either side to form the mental tubercle.

Features such as the shape of the supraorbital ridge, incisors, mental protuberance, mastoid process, among other cranial features are fundamental to the identification of ancestry and gender for the skeletal remains.