Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed | BBC News

a 75,000 Yee old Neanderthal skull made up of more than a 100 fragments of bone has been painstakingly put back together and used to create a 3D reconstruction The Remains were discovered in a cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq which archaeologists believe may have been a burial site our science editor Rebecca Morel has more revealed for the first time a face from the ancient past a female nandal who lived 75,000 years ago she’s been called shanidar Zed her face was recreated from this skull Unearthed 6 years ago we can say that she’s the andar from various features so perhaps the most obvious one is this quite large brow Ridge that runs across above the eyes um but also think like the shape of the nose so the nose is is quite wide at the top a detailed analysis suggests she was probably around her mid- 4S with particularly worn teeth by the time the teeth are getting this worn down her chewing is not as effective as it would have been so she’s not able to eat in quite the same way we’ve got some other indications of sort of poor Dental Health um some infections some some gum disease as well probably by the time the skeleton and the teeth are this kind of worn you’re actually getting to the The Natural end of life the skull was found like this in profile and completely flattened into a two cm thick layer transforming the crushed skull into what you can see here has been astonishingly difficult it’s made from hundreds of fragments of incredibly fragile bone that have been painstakingly pieced together it’s like the ultimate 3D jigsaw puzzle and it’s taken the best part of a year to complete the skeleton was discovered in a cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq the excavation was followed by a documentary team archaeologists have been unearthing the andol remains there since the 1950s they’ve found Bones from at least 10 individuals they think it’s a burial site where different groups of neandertals brought their dead over many years I think it means that they they must have cared for each other they were looking after other members of the group and that care went on after they died because they were carefully placed and probably covered there’s absolutely no doubt that they maintained a tradition over several hundred years of this is where you put Grandma since the first excavation the cave has been Transforming Our understanding of neand tals the species disappeared about 40,000 years ago while modern humans that’s us thrived but now there’s evidence from the cave they used tools built fires and cook together you’re getting into a world where you can see nandar sitting around preparing food heating them up some kind of simple cooking going on and presumably that beginning of socializing in ways so that’s just another example of they’re more and more like us Rebecca moral with that incredible story there

Scientists have recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman – one of our closest evolutionary cousins.

The 3D model is based on the flattened, shattered remains of a skull whose bones were so soft when excavated they had the consistency of “a well-dunked biscuit”.

The skull was found in Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan, where the remains of 10 Neanderthal men, women and children were previously unearthed.

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36 comments

  21. CREATOR STILL CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. DON'T THINK THAT WAS THAT FAR BACK. EVEN JOHN THE BAPTIST WORE CAMEL COVERING. NATIVE AMERICAN WORE HIDE. NOT LONG AGO. WHERE DID THE WHITE RACE COME FROM. NOT FROM EARTH BUT FROM MARS AND ITS DESOLATED.

  23. "the theory of evolution and the big bang has less credibility than a tornado smashing through a scrapyard and building a B-52 bomber with the junk."

  25. Cro-MAGA man… In America here the Marjorie Taylor Greene jokes are flying.
    I myself had previously referred to her as Marjorie Taylor Greene – Emissary of the Neanderthal people.

  33. What a load off old tosh. Find a few rubbery bones, and create a new species and justify it by calling it 75,000 years old. It wouldn’t even stand up in the weakest of magistrates courts as “evidence”.

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