Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
The wonder is appropriate.
It reflects something true about what this kind of science accomplishes.
It is not that we can recover what is lost — the voice, the experiences, the relationships, the specific knowledge of a Neanderthal woman who lived in the Zagros Mountains during the last Ice Age.
Those things are gone.
Seventy-five thousand years is, in human terms, almost incomprehensible.
The span from the death of Shanidar Z to the birth of the first pharaoh of Egypt is longer than all of recorded history.
The span from there to now is longer still.
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