{"id":39410,"date":"2023-11-08T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/?p=39410"},"modified":"2023-11-08T19:29:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:29:06","slug":"amazing-neanderthal-face-reconstruction-with-and-without-beard-after-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/world-news\/amazing-neanderthal-face-reconstruction-with-and-without-beard-after-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Neanderthal face reconstruction with and without beard after discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have generated a new reconstruction of a Neanderthal\u2019s face following an incredible discovery.<\/p>\n

Boffins now believe skeletal remains, originally thought to be of a homosapien or modern man, are actually a Neanderthal. Neanderthal went extinct around 40,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

The remains were discovered in 1908 by a group of Catholic priests inside a commune known as La Chapelle-aux-Saint, in South-Central France. They dubbed the remains \u201cold man\u201d as he was missing several of his teeth.<\/p>\n

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Many of the bones had hallmark traits of a Neanderthal \u2013 such as an oversized brow ridge and large eye orbits. Prompting tests by experts at the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Department of Anthropology \u2013 115 years later, according to eFossils.<\/p>\n

Forensic artists have created a digital likeness of the man. He is believed to have been around age 40 at the time of his death \u2013 living sometimes between 47,000 and 56,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

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