Neanderthal woman’s face revealed

A Neanderthal woman’s face has been reconstructed based on a 75,000-year-old skull found in Iraq. Neanderthals are the closest relatives of modern humans and lived about 400,000 to 40,000 years ago. The skull was found in 2018 in Shanidar Cave, 24.6 feet underground. It had been crushed by falling rocks into hundreds of fragments, then buried under rock and soil. “The skull was as flat as a pizza, basically,” said Graeme Barker, who led the dig. Scientists carefully removed the pieces and brought them to a lab, where they spent more than a year fitting them back together like a jigsaw puzzle. The team named the Neanderthal woman Shanidar Z. After they rebuilt the skull, they scanned it and created a 3D replica. Based on the model, artists determined what…

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