Posted on 06/26/2016 6:11:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists have studied a rare skeleton from the Silla culture, which ruled over part of the Korean Peninsula from 57 B.C. to A.D. 935. “The skeletons are not preserved well in the soil of Korea,” bioanthropologist Dong Hoon Shin of Seoul National University College of Medicine told Live Science. The skeleton, of a woman in her late 30s, was found in a traditional coffin that had been buried near the historic capital of the Silla Kingdom, Gyeongju. Analysis of her mitochondrial DNA suggests that she belonged to a genetic lineage that is present in East Asia today. Carbon isotopes in her bones indicate that she ate a vegetarian diet. The reconstruction of her facial features and head shape from skull fragments suggests that the woman had an elongated skull. Physical anthropologist Eun Jin Woo of Seoul National University thinks that the skull grew that way naturally, since it does not display the shape changes usually seen when heads are deliberately deformed. “In this regard, we think her head should be considered as normal variation in the group,” Woo said.
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Funny ... you don’t LOOK Asian ...
Has anyone ever reconstructed the skull of a known person, but didn't tell the reconstructor .... and compared the result ?
Alas, poor Yorick Son!
It probably has more meat on its bones now than some North Koreans.
Why its Kim Jong Un !
May he Rest in Peace not glowing in the dark from nuclear radiation.
The skeleton, of a woman in her late 30s...
Wonder if she’s still available?
That happens with police forensic reconstruction all that time, I’m sure. The only ancient forensic reconstructions I’ve seen are some Late Kingdom Egyptians, the museum had their skulls layin’ around.
A partial aside: Tell a Japanese individual that they are descended genetically from Koreans and watch them flip out. Matrilineal DNA confirmed this a few years ago. Still a lot of bad blood between Koreans, Chinese and Japanese. It predated WWII, but the war made things far worse.
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the shape of the skull is interesting:
Ancient woman comes alive
The new 3D reconstruction of the woman’s face shows a woman who had a longer skull than is currently typical in Korea. The woman’s head was dolicephalic, meaning her head length is more than 80 percent of its width. However, the team does not believe this was due to deliberate deformation, but was rather a natural variation within the population.
Thanks FN!
Does this come from the Ministry of Silla Walks?
And the answer is they can get pretty close.
The ravages of communism and a despotic madman. Those souls won't have to spend any time in purgatory...they're doing it now.
Of course, ALL humans share 75% of their DNA with pumpkins. We are all 3/4 vegetable (or is pumpkin a fruit?).
That there silly culture skull looks normal enough—maybe even more normal than a lot of Prussian skulls.
...maybe even more normal than many sloped, Hunnish skulls directly in the far east.
;-)
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