Image courtesy of the University of Cambridge; BBC Stunandertals dios/Jamie Simonds,
Joel Kontinen
The
recreated head of "Shanidar Z'' shows a Neanderthal woman who lived about
75,000 years ago.
“A Neanderthal skull that was crushed to bits 75,000 years ago has been pieced back together and used to recreate the face of a wise-looking archaic woman with dark, flowing hair.”
“Archaeologists painstakingly pieced together the skull of the individual, who researchers have named Shanidar Z, from hundreds of flattened bone fragments discovered in the Iraqi Kurdistan,”
Source:
Emily
Cooke, 2024,
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