Posted on 05/15/2013 7:47:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Malta's megalithic temples are slowly revealing secrets about a population that was clever, artistic, creative and talented with an eye for detail and a taste for the delicate and the exotic.
Heritage Malta this evening surprised guests at the Malta Fashion Week with an exhibition entitled Jewellery through the times showing that Malta's first residents were not the aggressive, dirty individuals with unkempt hair which most imagine them to have been.
The exhibition was followed by a fashion show of replica prehistoric jewellery, which preceded the main highlight: changing the misconception related to the image of prehistoric people by means of a unique reconstruction.
The items featured in the fashion show were replicas of objects worn by individuals who lived on the Maltese islands some 5600 years ago. The artefacts exhibited were discovered at various Prehistoric Temple sites and form part of the permanent display at Heritage Malta’s National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.
Heritage Malta also launched a 3D virtual reconstruction of facial features based on one of the prehistoric skulls (over 5,000 years old) found at the Xagħra Stone Circle in Gozo. It revealed, for the very first time, what one of the earliest Maltese actually looked like.
It was a face which was much closer to what one would expect from a woman of our day and age rather than that of a person who lived on the islands over 5,000 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofmalta.com ...
Hair color and eye color is an educated guess. We have painted pictures of the ancient Minoans and it looked like they had white fair skin and dark hair and eyes and they lived about the same time as this woman did and near Malta.
Libyans and the ancient people of the Canary Islands had fair hair and skin. As for the Egyptian Pharoahs, a lot of that hair color reported is the effect of age on the mummies. Its anybody’s guess.
Or Hera of the white arms.
I remember that. The skeleton found in a cave was called “Cheddar Man”. He was found in the town of Cheddar. The direct descendant was the school teacher.
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