Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.
LONDON — She looks pretty good for 75,000 years old. Particularly given that her skull was smashed into 200 pieces, possibly by a rockfall, before it was meticulously pieced together by scientists over the last six years. This is Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal woman whose face was recreated by archaeologists at England’s University of Cambridge.
The site represents “the most important fieldwork endeavors of modern palaeoanthropology,” according to Paul Pettitt, a professor of paleolithic archeology at Durham University, in the north of England. The work settles “the century-old debate as to whether they buried their dead,” he told NBC News. “We can now say that some Neanderthals buried some of their dead, some of the time” he added.
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