This 4,000-year-old skull just received a new face

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Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her face

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When he thought about the woman’s eyes, he considered the boy she’d been buried with. The boy’s skeleton had been too damaged to inform a recreation, but Nilsson wanted to include him. He imagined the boy was her son, and she was watching him as he ran ahead of her. They were likely hunter gatherers, traveling behind the animal migrations. Perhaps, he thought, they were on the way to winter camp.

“She’s not threatened, she feels at home, and she looks at this boy,” Nilsson says. “It’s a safe feeling, but also almost a bit cocky. Even though she’s small, you wouldn’t want to mess with her.” Nillson studied historic migration patterns to determine that the woman likely had light skin and dark hair. She is clothed in tanned animal skins made with Stone Age techniques.In past reconstructions, he’s known his job was done well when a museum visitor leans toward the face to examine its details and then jumps back, uncomfortable with the closeness. It often happens when the two pairs of eyes—living and reconstructed—are around two feet apart.

Nilsson knows those forests well. When he was growing up in Stockholm, his family would spend vacations at a cottage a few miles away from where the grave had been found. He’d walk among the trees, collecting mushrooms and looking for moose, or even a bear—perhaps along the same trails as the woman from Lagmansören.

“DNA and 3D printing are cool,” Nilsson says. “But it’s always [about] this emotional bond I—and many people—experience when we look upon a reconstructed face. It’s that connection that comes first.”

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She knew how to sew.

She is like Flea ChiliPeppers

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Wasn’t she at the January 6 insurrection?

Well so much for science pretty sexist she do not have facial hair With way woman are now and looking back really sexist to think men only ones with facial hair But them same people will preach what i should believe Kills your credibility

Neander Karen Thall

How accurate are these reconstructions? Do they use them for body identification?

How do they know that she identified as a woman? Aren’t they misgendering zer? Shouldn’t they include all the genders just in case?

It took me a minute to process the context of '4000 year old' lmao

Half of London looks similar to her.

Level 7 roadman 💀

It was yesterday, it was an eternity.

mofo just took a picture of a british woman

Well she looks younger btw.

Jonny McGlynn its Steve from thomasdaviesgaaclub thx for everything Jonny Steve ; ))

Is that an Eddie Bauer shirt she’s wearing?

Hear me out…

Damn I knew the former speaker of the house was from the stone age

I love Sweden ..search the ship...vassa....amazing story..lots of islands...

did she have a ponytail when they found her? honest question

Trannies walked the forests?

The Clan of the Cave Bear woman?

Hmmm 🤔 very interesting

Willem Dafoe

There's no science behind these facial reconstructions. DNA gives eye, skin, and hair color only. The rest is artists conception of what you want to see.

She looks really familiar. I think I work with her at my place of underemployment.

Didn't Jon snow hit that?🤣

She could audition for ABBA

She looks much more manlier than todays generation.

Basically they picked a random Walmart shopper, paid her 20 bucks for a photo, and claim they reconstructed the face of a 4000 year old mummy.

WHOAH didnt know humans back then had 6 fingers

She looks like my neighbor

4000 years old? This woman’s moisturising routine must have been Godly. On a serious note, how do you know how they wore their hair? In this image, it looks like it’s tied.

She looks familiar. 😅

Many of us have seen that video of her kicking off at the Scotland football match. 'DJINK YER SMERT!!'

Holy shit my ex wife!

How in the world would you know how she lived? Or is it all educated guesses? I can understand knowing what they ate and stuff like that but how would we know how they lived?

Are u sure their skin is white?

How do we know she was white?

She was robbing coffee in BM’s last week, I’m sure it’s her.

She looks disgusted at her 4,000 year old husband.

Do you have images of the people that lived in Göbekli Tepe 11 500 years ago?

Looks like the usual Finn.

I’m sure totally correct 🤣

Looks rather young for a 4000 year old woman 🤔 What cream she using? 🤣

❤️

Lol from seeing the replies to this tweet, I see how the Neanderthals disappeared. Definitely breeding

It's Willem Dafoe?!?!

Mmm...

Amazing!

Im sure I saw her on the bus last week.

How do we know this person wasn't non-binary or trans? Bold to assume

She looks good for her age. I would have guessed 44.

Smash

Don't think she may have been blonde?

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