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Czech scientists reveal striking look of a Bronze Age woman from Bohemia
Expats Cz ^ | May 25, 2022 | Raymond Johnston

Posted on 06/02/2022 7:04:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

The member of the Únětice culture was buried with a unique amber necklace, but her DNA is the real treasure when it comes to recreating her appearance.

You can now see what a woman who lived near the Czech city of Pardubice in the Bronze Age looked like.

This image is not an artistic guess. New forms of DNA analysis plus unusually well-preserved personal items allow us to now make a highly accurate picture.

The woman, estimated to have died at around age 35, came from the upper social strata. Her grave in Mikulovice in Eastern Bohemia is one of the richest in Europe from her era.

She had fair skin, brown hair, widely spaced brown eyes, a prominent chin, and a petite figure adorned with bronze and gold jewelry and a beautiful amber necklace.

Bringing her back to what she looked like took the combined efforts of experts in several fields. The model was completed by anthropologist Eva Vaníčková and sculptor Ondřej Bílek from the Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction of the Moravian Museum (MZM) in cooperation with archaeologist Michal Ernée from the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Science (AVČR) in Prague.

Her grave is the richest one for a woman Únětice culture, a group that lived in Central Europe from about 2300 to 1600 B.C. The culture is named for the village of Únětice, near Prague. A large burial site was found there in 1879. Other sites have now been found across Central Europe.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: amber; ancientautopsies; bohemia; bronzeage; czechrepublic; europe; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; moravianmuseum; unetice; warhammer40kork
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To: x

Quite right about the ‘burgs, but I wasn’t thinking about the British royals. Must have been a different continental royal house, about whom it was joked that they couldn’t be hanged because no chins.

[snip] Numerous members of the family showed specific facial deformities: an enlarged lower jaw with an extended chin known as mandibular prognathism or “Habsburg jaw”, a large nose with hump and hanging tip (”Habsburg nose”), and an everted lower lip (”Habsburg lip”). The latter two are signs of maxillary deficiency. A 2019 study found that the degree of mandibular prognathism in the Habsburg family shows a statistically significant correlation with the degree of inbreeding. A correlation between maxillary deficiency and degree of inbreeding was also present but was not statistically significant.[21][22] Other scientific studies, however, dispute the ideas of any linkage between fertility and consanguinity. [/snip] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg


41 posted on 06/02/2022 8:20:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: seowulf

It’s not a bad guess to suppose that everyone at that time was “ripe” regardless of age. :^)


42 posted on 06/02/2022 8:22:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I would guess most of the world population is still on the ripe side.


43 posted on 06/02/2022 8:31:02 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: SunkenCiv

I can see now why the men in a hunter-gatherer society were out hunting. A lot.


44 posted on 06/02/2022 8:31:08 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Pretty sure a reconstruction of one of the men of her village would show why that might not be true. ;^)


45 posted on 06/02/2022 8:34:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Republican in occupied CA

Interesting!


46 posted on 06/02/2022 8:35:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
In "The Bronze World Is Not Just A Muff", Austin is convinced by Dr. Evil to
unfreeze Austin's partner from the past, but when she turns out to actually be
Dr. Evil's past wife, a Bronze Age chieftess, hilarity ensues.


47 posted on 06/02/2022 8:37:45 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Enjoy the parade of Putlim Soviet c!rclejerkers lining up for the Tedlim-style putsch)
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t find her that homely

Her eyes could be bigger

She’s obviously white and privileged and racist I’m sure


48 posted on 06/02/2022 8:40:08 AM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the sane posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: SunkenCiv

How do they know kw it was a woman? Are they biologisits?


49 posted on 06/02/2022 8:49:47 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: brownsfan

Yup, they ca. Get pretty close- lots of cases have been solved by this process. .oke you say it isn’t perfect, UT sometimes it’s pretty close


50 posted on 06/02/2022 8:51:56 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Bob434

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4068064/posts?page=13#13


51 posted on 06/02/2022 9:09:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just a Bronze Age gal trapped in a Techno-world.


52 posted on 06/02/2022 9:09:34 AM PDT by null and void (We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
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To: SunkenCiv

That would solve all this nonsense.


53 posted on 06/02/2022 9:16:13 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: ConservaTexan

Reading the articles would indeed solve all the nonsense that gets posted in this and many other topics.


54 posted on 06/02/2022 9:34:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Sirius Lee
“So, where were you last night?”
55 posted on 06/02/2022 11:30:17 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Mastador1
And you know she has one of those voices that sounds like nails on a chalkboard when she asks it.

Any archeobioacoustical specialists out there?

56 posted on 06/02/2022 12:01:15 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SpaceBar
LOL

57 posted on 06/03/2022 3:38:11 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: SunkenCiv


58 posted on 06/04/2022 3:09:09 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: SpaceBar
Harcourt Fenton Mudd, have you been drinking again!

LOL I thought the same thing

59 posted on 06/05/2022 7:45:00 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: SunkenCiv

She’s ready for the greenskin WAAAAAAAAAAAGH.
Tis Ork techyology

The red wunz go fasta, purple wunz da sneakiest.


60 posted on 06/13/2022 5:48:19 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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