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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“Take a key, and go to bed!”
Bronze Age Karen looking for a manager...
Given her era, it’s possible. :^) But I think the Hapsburgs were known for receding chins, due to generations of consanguineous marriages.
Eeech
I will withhold judgement until I hear the opinion of Laz
Amy Sedaris???
Looks almost exactly like my babysitter, except younger. Agnes was a Czechoslovakian old lady who lived next door. A WW1 war bride, so about 75 when I was young. My parents trusted her to give me a good swatting when I had it coming; she also taught me how to pan-fry a steak to perfection and use a spinning wheel. Brilliant gardener, she knew the local legend Luther Burbank and had more than a few cuttings, including an apple tree with 8 varieties grafted onto it.
Same face, same BIG hands.
Lol!
Somebody post the Russian chick on Ben Stiller’s team in DODGEBALL.
Somebody call Jay Leno. They just dug up his greatgggggg grandmother.
All she needs is a rolling pin in her hand.
😆
To the contrary, they were known for pronounced chins as a result of generations of intermarriage...
Noun chinless wonder (plural chinless wonders) (Britain, derogatory) An ineffectual upper-class man, typically dim-witted and of a weak or indecisive character, frequently one who gained his position through nepotism or social connections.
How could they tell she was angry?
Well, at least she lived to a ripe, old age.
Gender crowd uproar soon as she might have identified as a man.
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