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BBC Studios Science Unit, Executive Producer Gideon Bradshaw explains how the team brought Netflix's Secrets of the Neanderthals to life

A team is featured in a new documentary in which the experts have reconstructed the face of a Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago.

A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge.

Discover the reconstructed face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave, offering new perspectives on our ancient cousins.

<p>New Netflix documentary <em>Secrets of the Neanderthals </em>features a facial recreation based on Cambridge work rebuilding a Neanderthal skull crushed to just 2cm thick, with bone the consistency of “biscuit dunked in tea”.</p>

Neanderthals, believed to have vanished around 40,000 years ago

The facial reconstruction is based on the remains of a Neanderthal excavated from an iconic archaeological site.

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