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BBC | Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal Woman Revealed

Scientists have recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman - one of our closest evolutionary cousins.

The 3D model is based on the flattened, shattered remains of a skull whose bones were so soft when excavated they had the consistency of "a well-dunked biscuit".


The skull was found in Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan, where the remains of 10 Neanderthal men, women and children were previously unearthed.

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