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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By her body language and the look on her face, it appears the Karen is not a modern phenomenon.
Several years ago in Boston, the decayed body of a toddler girl was found, in a trash bag, at a local beach. Authorities worked to provide a working description of the young girl. The picture that emerged was of a beautiful young baby. Nobody came forth to discuss a missing girl of the description.
Some weeks following, a break in the case occurred. They found persons who identified the girl from the recreated model. They obtained pictures. The pictures of the little girl were amazingly similar to the artist rendition. I was amazed at the accuracy. I never really thought that such a thing could be possible, but the evidence was before us all. It was remarkable.
They reconstructed that child's likeness and arrested the parents well, the mother and her boyfriend, who each blamed the other for the murder.
Say what you want, but somebody loved her a lot to bury that necklace with her and everybody else feared that somebody a lot to not be graverobbing it on the sly.
A vintage 3 strand cognac amber necklace sells for $300-600 on ebay. I wonder if she made it herself?
OK then, that is pretty neat.
We have yet to see the men of that Bronze Age village.
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