Do faces always lie? Scientists have reconstructed the head of a 75,000-year-old human cousin for a new Netflix documentary. But some say we will never really know what lies behind the mask we have created.
What this Neanderthal woman says about us
Deceptive?: Shanidar Z (recreated above) is “a far cry from the snarling, animalistic stereotype”. Glossary
Shanidar cave - An archaeological site on Bradost Mountain in Iraq. Scientists investigating Neanderthal bones there were followed by a camera crew on a BBC and Netflix documentary, Secrets of the Neanderthals.
Iraq - A country in the Middle East with a population of 43.5m.
Homo sapiens - The species to which all modern humans belong. Homo sapiens means "wise man" in Latin.
Neanderthal - An extinct species of human that lived until 40,000 years ago.
Sigmund Freud - An Austrian psychoanalyst who was one of the world’s foremost authorities on psychology in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Although his ideas have been discredited in the scientific community, he remains influential for literary scholars.
Buddhism - A religion of eastern and central Asia. It began with the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama on suffering.
Benevolent - Well-meaning and kind.