Researchers have designed a unique recreation of what a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman may have looked like if she was alive.
The reconstruction built from broken and flattened remains of a soft skull when excavated- the same consistency of “a well-dunked biscuit”. Scientists first fortified fragments of the bones before reassembling the model. Based on that, expert paleoartists generated a 3D replica.
The discovery emerged from a documentary which dismantled knowledge about primates who became extinct nearly 40,000 years ago.
Dr Emma Pomeroy, a palaeoanthropologist from the University of Cambridge says "I think she can help us connect with who they were".
The replica is based on a skull discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan's Shanidar Cave. It is a famous site where the bones of at least ten Neanderthal males, women, and children were discovered in the 1950s.
When a British delegation was welcomed back by Kurdish officials in 2015, they discovered a fresh skeleton known as Shanidar Z, which had much of the individual's upper torso, including the spine, shoulders, arms, and hands.
Science: 75,000-year-old Neanderthal female face revealed by researchers
