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 ...
Thank you. People who post HT fotos should be shot and then pistol whipped.
Yikes...it’s got TWO heads...joined at the hip?
Michelle, the bog woman!
More like BARFOLA.
I did not expect to see the lovely Miss Thomas when I arrived at this thread. It was a shocka!
Holy smokes!!!
Good thing I’m not famous...my carcass could have been used for this story!
*swoon*
HAHAHA! LOL
Contain yourself, Danae !!
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LOL
;’) I wouldn’t blame ya. Of course, half of FR would be kicked out if no-Helen were a rule...
Sounds like a choice I wouldn’t chews.
;’)
An angry mob burned down the store.
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I came on here to show my husband the article, he doesn’t go on FR. While waiting for the pic to come up I said, ‘see, they’re going to have a pic of the bogwoman’s face and then suddenly ‘pop’!
Helen Thomas.
Pretty funny the way that happened.
:’) I knew it would happen, so I included in the very first post, a sort or preemptive strike. Burned out many a retina, I’m afraid... ;’)
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