Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
That is a record of extraordinary human adaptation.
The caves they used still stand.
The tools they made still exist, pulled from sediment layers around the world.
The bones of the individuals who lived and died in those caves are being studied with methods those individuals could not have imagined.
And one of them — a middle-aged woman who died in a mountain cave 75,000 years ago, whose skull was crushed by the weight of time into more than two hundred pieces — has had her face rebuilt.
She looks like someone from a very long time ago, and also like someone who was here.
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