Posted on 02/10/2010 6:25:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The female known as the Auning Woman, found in a northeastern Jutland bog 1886, and housed at the Museum for Culture and History in Randers, has finally got a face.
Reasonably well-preserved when she popped up from the bog, the woman's 2000-year-old skull was broken into several pieces.
But sculptor Bjørn Skaarup and medical examiner Niels Lynnerup from the Panum Institute in Copenhagen have now reconstructed the Auning Woman's face, using the common forensic clay method first developed by Russian anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov.
The finished product was put on display today at the museum. And although the results have shown her to be neither attractive nor particularly ugly, a reproduction of her face that is according to Lynnerup "as close to reality as it comes", can now be viewed.
Experts believe the woman was killed as a sacrifice, probably to pagan gods...
Lynnerup and Skaarup have had considerable experience using their talents, having performed reconstructions of Denmark's eighth king Svend II, 17th century nobleman Kaj Lykke and the oldest known Dane ever found, the 10,000 year-old Koelbjerg Woman.
With a plastic copy of the body's skull -- and knowing the sex and approximate age of the deceased -- the pair is able to determine the general shape of the head and face, including the size of the nose and mouth...
Lynnerup admitted, however, that there was no way to know what a person's ears and hair looked like without a sample. Eyebrows, eye colour, wrinkles and other features were also unable to be exactly recreated, he said.
The Auning Woman is being exhibited in the museum's Ancient History wing.
(Excerpt) Read more at jp.dk ...
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lol!!
Wonder why there are no pictures.
She is Bogwoman, not bogface.
Please check your disoriented calendar. Here we are approaching Valentines Day and already your hanging up the halloween decorations!
Are the above photos what they dug up, or after reconstruction? I don’t understand.
Strange, to see a primitive creature like that looking back at us through the ages...
Helen Thomas antidote!
This is the only one I can find. From here
http://www.indiatalkies.com/2010/02/face-2000yearold-woman-reconstructed.html
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YIKES!
Double your pleasure, double your fun with double mint gum.
This face looks like something that would stick to your shoe.
There are threads I expect to see Helen, and then one like this comes along and catches me off guard. Damn You! :)
Nightmares!!!!
Not guilty.
I almost hit the abuse button. One photo would have sufficed. A mirror-image is over the top!
NooooOOOOOOOhhhhhHHHHH!!!! LOL
Dammit. Helen Thomas again!
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