Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
Ground-penetrating radar.
Three-dimensional digital mapping.
Micro-stratigraphic analysis of sediment layers.
Pollen extraction using protocols designed to minimize contamination.
In 2016, they found something unexpected.
In sediment adjacent to but outside Solecki’s original excavation area, the Cambridge team uncovered Neanderthal bone.
Not a scattered fragment — a substantial portion of a skull.
As the excavation continued across multiple seasons through 2019, the extent of what they had found became clearer.
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