More than 200 pieces of the skull were pieced together freehand to return it to its original shape.
A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton found in the foothills of Iraq is believed to have been a woman aged in her mid-forties, according to researchers who pieced her skull back together.
It had been crushed, possibly by rockfall, relatively soon after death and then compacted further by tens of thousands of years of sediment.Without pelvic bones, the team relied on sequencing tooth enamel proteins to determine the sex of the skeleton – believed to be female and aged in her mid-forties.Teeth were also used to gauge her age through levels of wear and tear – with some front teeth worn down to the root.
In the Cambridge lab, researchers took micro-CT scans of each block before gradually diluting the glue and using the scans to guide extraction of bone fragments. Archaeologists had suggested the presence of pollen indicated that the dead were buried with flowers, but a study led by Professor Chris Hunt, of Liverpool John Moores University, now indicates the pollen was left by bees burrowing into the cave floor.
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