May
02
/ 2024
The unveiling of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal's reconstructed face marks a significant breakthrough in our understanding of our closest extinct relatives. This discovery, emerging from the depths of Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan, is featured in the new documentary produced by BBC Studios Science Unit to be released on Netflix. The documentary, "Secrets of the Neanderthals” follows the team led by the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores as they return to Shanidar Cave to continue excavations. View of the entrance to Shanidar Cave, within the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq. (Prof Graeme Barker/ University of Cambridge ) Archaeological Breakthrough at Shanidar Cave In 2018, a team led by the University of Cambridge made a
