70,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Skeleton Found at Iconic Iraqi Burial Site

• January 11, 2020September 17, 2024

70,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Skeleton Found at Iconic Iraqi Burial Site A skeleton uncovered in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of Neanderthal species is providing fresh evidence that they buried their dead – and intriguing clues that flowers may have been used in such rituals. Scientists said on Tuesday they had discovered…