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Revealed for the first time, a face from the ancient past.
这是首次展示一张远古时代的面孔。
A female Neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago, she's been called Shanidar Z.
她是一位生活在7.5万年前的尼安德特女性，被称为沙尼达尔·Z。
"We can say that she's Neanderthal from various features. So perhaps the most obvious one is this quite large brow ridge that runs across above the eyes, but also things like the shape of the nose."
“从各种特征来看，我们可以推测她是尼安德特人。也许最明显的一个特征是横跨眼睛上方的巨大眉脊，还有鼻子的形状。”
She was probably around her mid-40s with particularly worn teeth.
她的年龄大概是四十多岁，牙齿磨损很严重。
The skull was found like this, in profile and completely flattened.
头骨是这样被发现的，侧面完全扁平。
"Transforming the crushed skull into what you can see here has been astonishingly difficult.
“将破碎的头骨变成你现在看到的样子是非常困难的。
It's made from hundreds of fragments of incredibly fragile bone that have been painstakingly pieced together.
它是由数百块极其脆弱的骨头碎片精心拼凑而成的。
It's like the ultimate 3D jigsaw puzzle and it's taken the best part of a year to complete."
它就像一个终极的3D拼图，花了一年的时间才完成。”
The skeleton was discovered in a cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
这具骨架是在伊拉克库尔德斯坦地区的一个洞穴中发现的。
Archaeologists have been unearthing Neanderthal remains there since the 1950s, they've found bones from at least ten individuals.
自20世纪50年代以来，考古学家一直在那里挖掘尼安德特人的遗骸，截止目前他们已经发现了至少10个人的骨头。
Since the first excavations, the cave has been transforming our understanding of Neanderthals.
从第一次挖掘开始，这个洞穴就改变了我们对尼安德特人的认识。
The species disappeared about 40,000 years ago, while modern humans, that's us, thrived.
这个物种大约在4万年前消失了，而现代人类，也就是我们，却繁衍了起来。
But now there's evidence from the cave. They used tools, built fires, and cook together.
但现在，洞穴里出现了一些证据。他们会使用工具，生火，一起做饭。
For the archaeologists, touching the past is all about telling the stories of these ancient people.
对于考古学家来说，触摸过去就是讲述这些古人的故事。
"It's a massive privilege actually, it's very exciting to start getting glimpses of what her life was like.
“事实上，这是一种巨大的特权，开始了解她的生活是非常令人兴奋的。
There are really important things that we can learn about her as an individual, about the group that she was part of."
我们可以从她个人身上，从她所属的群体身上，了解到很多重要的东西。”
Learning about Shanidar Z also reveals more about us, so she could reveal just how similar or different we are.
了解沙尼达尔·Z也揭示了更多关于我们的信息，她可以揭示我们有多相似或多不同。
