Posted on 02/27/2007 2:12:25 PM PST by blam
'First' Sicilian woman gets face
She lived 14, 000 yrs ago in a cave near Messina
PALERMO (ANSA) - The face of a late Stone Age woman who lived in Sicily has been reconstructed by a sculptor working with anthropologists at Palermo University.
The skeleton of the woman, who lived 14,000 years ago, was discovered in a cave near Messina in 1937, along with the incomplete skeletons of six other humans, presumably her family.
The face was reproduced using reconstruction techniques that calculate the appearance of features from the form of the cranium. The same techniques have been used recently to recreate the faces of Egyptian pharaohs and Italy's own Count Ugolino, a 13th-century Tuscan noble whose bones were found in 2001.
Artistic licence was used when deciding to give the ancient Sicilian the same black hair common in modern women from southern Italy.
Thea, as she has been nicknamed, spent most of her life hunting, or gathering fruit and plants. At 165 cm, she was tall for her time. Experts estimate that when she died she was about 30, much older than the normal life expectancy in the late Stone Age.
"This means that she must have had a healthy and regular lifestyle," said Valerio Agnesi, director of the 'Gemmellaro' museum where the face, along with a recreation of her cave environment, is now on display.
Silly - that's not Helen Thomas, that's her Daughter.
Disagree. Nothing in that hag resembles of Sophia. Thanks for the link though. Actesses like Sophia put to shame today's Hollywood floozies of phoney boobs and silicone puffed-up fish lipped women.
And her mammoth braciole was to die for.
I KNEW I KNEW I KNEW this headline would lead to helen thomas!
Keep up the good work!
Geddy Lee?
With a little make up and a new 'do, she could look quite nice, I think.
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She looks like Sylvester Stallone.
Cave canem!
(Sorry blam!)
giggle
Yeah, like Kerry's wife resembles Ann Margaret.
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How about a face lift?
Missing link?
Mama Mia.....But can she cook???
She's either cross-eyed, or trying to find the end of that schnoz!
Lol! Yeah, I guess she does look pretty bad for someone who's only thirty. She looks like she's been doing some hard drugs.
Reminds me of my Mother in law....
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