Amazing stuff! What a beauty! We are all Neanderthals! 😊
"A team of palaeo-archaeologists is featured in a new documentary in which the experts have reconstructed the face of a Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago.
The skull, crushed into hundreds of fragments possibly by a rockfall after death, was excavated in 2018 at Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. Named Shanidar Z, the Neanderthal’s remains are possibly the top part of a skeleton uncovered at the cave in 1960.
The cave is possibly a Neanderthal burial site. ...
“Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack chins, with a projecting midface that results in more prominent noses. But the recreated face suggests those differences were not so stark in life,” ... “It’s perhaps easier to see how interbreeding occurred between our species, to the extent that almost everyone alive today still has Neanderthal DNA.” ...
“The skulls of Neanderthals and humans look very different,” ...
Lead conservator Dr Lucía López-Polín pieced over 200 bits of skull together freehand to return it to its original shape, including upper and lower jaws. ..."
"... The cave was made famous by work in the late 1950s that unearthed several Neanderthals which appeared to have been buried in succession. ...
Neanderthals are thought to have died out around 40,000 years ago, and the discoveries of new remains are few and far between. ..."
Neanderthals are thought to have died out around 40,000 years ago, and the discoveries of new remains are few and far between. ..."
Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead (original news release) A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge.
The puzzle
The skull of Shanidar Z, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan.
The puzzle solver and her result. I think, you can appreciate her smile! 😊
Dr Emma Pomeroy with the skull of Shanidar Z
Dr Emma Pomeroy with a replica of the Shanidar 1 skull. Dr Lucia López-Polin Dolhaberriague is also pictured.
The recreation
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