Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
The evidence says maybe.
The evidence says probably.
The evidence says we cannot be certain.
But the face makes it harder to dismiss than the abstract argument alone ever did.
She was here.
She was someone.
And the people around her, when she was gone, may have done something that we would understand.
That is the real story that the two-hundred-plus fragments of her skull, painstakingly rebuilt and carefully studied, are trying to tell us.