Face of Neanderthal Woman Reconstructed

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—NBC News reports that the face of a Neanderthal woman dubbed Shanidar Z has been recreated by a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge. The woman’s 75,000-year-old skull was discovered in some 200 pieces during a 2018 excavation of Shanidar Cave, which is located in Iraqi Kurdistan. Analysis of tooth enamel proteins was employed to determine her sex, since only about half of her skeleton was preserved. A CT scan of each skull fragment was made, and the p