Archaeologists reconstruct portrait of Neanderthal boy whose skull was found in Uzbekistan

• Published date: 18 January 2023
• Publication title: Central Asian News Services

Archeologists from Jilin University recently published their research about the reconstructed skull of a Neanderthal boy from Teshik-Tash cave in Uzbekistan using digital 3D portrait reconstruction technology in cooperation with Moscow State University in Russia, Xinhua news agency reported.

The fossil skull of the boy, who was thought to be 8 to 9 years old, was found in southern Uzbekistan in 1938, according to documents provided by the university.

The boy lived between 300,000 and 40,000 years ago, it said.

"Fossils of Neanderthals, an extinct relative of modern humans, were first discovered in the Neanderthal Valley in Germany and were once widely distributed across Eurasia," head of the...