Netflix documentary reveals the face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman | Tech News [Video]

The face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal has been recreated from the shattered pieces of her skull in a new Netflix documentary.

The programme follows a team of archaeologists from the University of Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores, revealing how they recreated her face from hundreds of bone fragments after it was flattened. 

The woman, who was discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2018, is called Shanidar Z. She was found in a cave where the species repeatedly returned to lay their dead to rest. It was first made famous by work in the late 1950s that unearthed several Neanderthals which appeared to have been buried in succession.

The new documentary, called Secrets Of The Neanderthals, follows the team as they return to Shanidar cave to continue excavations.

Dr Emma Pomeroy, a palaeo-anthropologist from Cambridge’s department of archaeology said: ‘The skulls of Neanderthals and humans look very different.

‘Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack chins, with …