The first modern European: Forensic artist...
reconstructed the face based on skull fragments
from 35,000 years ago
Posted on 05/04/2009 9:13:34 AM PDT by yankeedame
This is the face of the first early European human which has been painstakingly constructed by scientists from bone fragments.
The man or woman - it is still not possible to determine the sex - lived 35,000 years ago in the Carpathian Mountains that today are part of Romania.
Their face was rebuilt in clay based on an incomplete skull and jawbone discovered in a cave where bears hibernated.
Forensic artist Richard Neave made the model based on his measurements of the pieces of bone and his knowledge of how facial tissues sit on the skull.
The first modern European: Forensic artist...
reconstructed the face based on skull fragments
from 35,000 years ago
It was created for TV show The Incredible Human Journey about the origins of the human race and evolution...
Anthropologist Alice Roberts...'It's really quite bizarre. I'm a scientist and objective but I look at that face and think "Gosh, I'm actually looking at the face of somebody from 40,000 years ago" and there's something weirdly moving about that...' she added.
'He said the skull doesn't actually look European, or Asian, or African. It looks like a mixture of all of them. And you think, well that's probably what you'd expect of someone who was among the earliest populations to come to Europe.'
Anthropologist Alice Roberts with the model...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This skull was from the time that humans first emigrated to Europe, especially northern Europe. He should have much, much darker skin that what the inhabitants have some 40K years later. At the time of his death, the European population cluster had had time to begin to adapt to it's new climate and environment, either through natural selection or mutation. But, it's something that would gradually happen the next 35,000 years.
Skin color is relative. Facial features are a better judge of race and there is a certain degree of subjectivity in interpreting them from bone structure. Each generation “re-invents” certain ideas about their past. Its become more politically correct to accentuate the “Africaness” of ancestral European, when in actuality, modern humans moved first into Asia, then north and west into Europe.
OMG PC RA. LOL!
A question. If the nose is all cartilage, how does he know to make a Negroid shaped nose??
Provided you believe in Darwinism.
Carville!! Zat you?
Good question. It may have to do with the size of the opening. I don’t know.
Those that reject Darwin's theory DO believe in evolution, they think all modern species evolved from primordial “kinds” that Noah fit on a boat. Evolution at a rate many thousands of times what could be supported by observation.
What mechanism do you ascribe to the OBVIOUS genetic differences among human populations?
Apparently there was no Hair Club for Men available 35,000 years ago.
Different races seeded from different planets/star systems many, many moons ago.
CA....
Eastern European
Add a little make-up and it's Grace Jones:
I have some Polish ancestors who lived in the Carpathian region of Poland, and well...we must have physically evolved over all that time.
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MO, #93 most beautiful. HA
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Even more amazing is that an entire ~face~ can be “reconstructed” from just a few bone fragments.
most people in the Balkans and SE Europe are olive to dark skinned!
Nope.
Not really—I have traveled in most of the region and what you say is far from true. There are pockets of darkness— Gypsies (Romani), Turks, and some others—but for the most part Balkan people are fair.
"Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site."
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