You measure a football field (100 yards long) on a large-scale map and find that it is 0.5 inch long. what is the scale of the map

300ft/.5in = 600ft/1in or 600 feet per inch.

Pieces of evidence excavated by archaeologists and anthropologists suggest that the oldest neandertal site dates from 350,000 to 600,000 years ago. In addition, the earliest Neandertals believed to have existed to Eurasia according to its lead archaeologist Thomas Higham from the University of Oxford.