Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
Gurche’s reconstruction gave Shanidar Z a face that is simultaneously familiar and different.
The brow ridges are pronounced, the face broad, the features set in a way that reflects Neanderthal morphology rather than simply a modern human face aged in reverse.
But the eyes — necessarily interpretive, since eyes do not preserve — communicate something.
The public and media reaction ranged from genuine curiosity and emotional engagement to the predictable overclaiming: headlines that stated definitively that she had been buried with flowers, or that Neanderthals practiced religion, or that this proved they were “just like us.”
The researchers themselves were careful.
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