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 ...
There's an error in the Sunderland map...Flores wasn't connected with the mainland during the last Ice Age.
Oh I don’t find that theory objectionable-—i was responding to the poster’s description of present day Balkan people.
What? No Helen Thomas picture!
Ummm, looks Sumerian to me.
If I lived outside as much as these folks, you would think I was not White.
Just how incomplete was the the skull and jawbone?
So, why did God annihilate that race? was it bad?
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Looks like Quincy Jones if you ask me!
LOL — My husband’s family all came from the Carpathian Mountains in Poland as well (as far back as we can tell on BOTH sides of his family...). And, well, yeah — bears no resemblance to this guy at ALL...
One thing I find funny — do they ever consider that people may not have LIVED where they are found? I mean, maybe they were on a skiing vacation? ;)
Looks vaguely and suspiciously like
the mutants from Beneath Planet of the Apes
And the alien ET in the Betty&Barney Hill UFO abduction case, curiously enough.
My first impression was that the model looked like Michelle’s brother.
I know where this thread is going...scrolling down.... yup!
What do you think the odds are the artist
watched The Ten Commandments, The King and I,
or The Magnificent Seven on cable shortly before sculpting?
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