Bronze Age woman from the Únětice culture.Photo: MZM.
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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Bronze Age woman from the Únětice culture.Photo: MZM.
“So, where were you last night?”
I don’t actually believe they can accurately “put on a hide”.
Links don’t work.
With a jaw like that, I wouldn’t want to peave her off.
That is one wild and crazy Bohemian Czech chick.
Did they “guess” at her gender?
Harcourt Fenton Mudd, have you been drinking again!
Links work
Prominent chin, upper social class...possibly a Hapsburg forebear?
They DNA’d at her gender.
I see that picture and see Frau Linkmeyer from Hogan's Heroes
*** I don’t actually believe they can accurately “put on a hide”. ***
I saw a tv program years back that addressed this. They recreated faces on bones to try to solve murders. The likeness wasn’t perfect, but it was surprisingly close.
Yeah, you can see she's about to hit someone.
Which links? The main story pops right up here, either the link behind the graphic, or the main FR ones.
They work for me. Worth reading the full article!!
Looks like a Scot’s jaw to me. :^)
The truth is, I was testing my time machine...
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