Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
She was located within or immediately adjacent to the same cluster of Neanderthal remains that Solecki had excavated six decades earlier.
Her skull lay in a specific position: on the left side, resting on or near a natural rocky slope within the cave.
That position — on the left side, head resting on a sloped surface — was not random.
It was consistent with deliberate placement.
Consistent with someone having arranged the body.
The micro-stratigraphic analysis conducted by the Cambridge team showed that the remains were embedded within a specific sediment layer that differed from the surrounding deposits.
This layer was characterized by its texture, its color, and its organic content.