Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
The skull was rebuilt from more than two hundred pieces.
The questions it raises cannot be fully reassembled in the same way.
Some fragments are missing.
Some will always be missing.
What remains is still extraordinary.
Her Face, Our Question
There is a photograph — or rather, a photograph of a reconstruction — that has circulated widely since the Cambridge work became public.
A Neanderthal woman looks outward.
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