Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
The deep past does not always surrender its secrets to better instruments.
Some questions may remain permanently open.
The Deeper Mystery: What They Did After She Died
The facial reconstruction of Shanidar Z is striking.
The rebuilt skull from which it was produced is scientifically significant.
But the headline of this story — the 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman whose crushed skull was rebuilt from more than 200 pieces — is, in some ways, the least interesting part of what the Shanidar excavations have produced.
The more important question is what happened after she died.
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