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Love Kennis & Kennis reconstructions of ancient humans. Love the life they give them.

australopithecus afarensis "Lucy", australopithecus sediba, homo erectus pithecantropus, homo ergaster "Turkana boy", homo floresiensis, homo neanderthalensis x2, early homo sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, "Ötzi the Iceman" and neolithic woman Lisar.

More sculptures and info on the artists' website:

https://www.kenniskennis.com/overview/

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Scurvy and anemia did not make life easy for ancient teens.

Meet Dawn. The apparently moody teenager hasn’t been seen for roughly 9,000 years, but thanks to science, her face was reconstructed using a skull found more than 20 years ago.

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The canine remains were buried in a tomb in Orkney, Scotland, over 4,000 years ago.

Another recent Atlas Obscura article that doesn’t relate to the main subjects of this blog, but which I found interesting.

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As the U.K. wrestles with issues of identity and nationalism around Brexit, a new exhibit is putting fresh faces on the region's ancient residents.

So cool.

I love to see facial reconstructions of ancient people.

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The facial reconstruction of an Ancient Egyptian Queen

The National Museums of Scotland Mummy Project has provided important new information about a burial excavated in Egypt. This has resulted in the facial reconstruction of a woman who was probably a queen at Thebes ca. 1570–1520 BCE. There are strong sugges- tions from the grave goods and her diet that this woman may have been ethnically Nubian rather than Egyptian. However, it is not yet possible to establish her ethnic identity for sure, so a definitive reconstruction of her appearance in life remains elusive.

At the time of the discovery, Petrie did suggest that the woman’s skull was not typically Egyptian, but examination of her skeleton to determine whether she was ethnically Egyptian or Nubian has so far proved inconclusive. The conundrum has been highlighted recently because examination of the skeleton has been used to make a facial reconstruction of the woman. Initially a reconstruction was created in clay by Caroline Wilkinson, Obviously, neither clay nor bronze is committed to a particular skin tone, but ancient and modern population data indicate that there would normally have been a marked difference in skin coloration between an ethnic Egyptian and an ethnic Nubian.

More recently Mark Mechan has produced three draw- ings of the reconstructed face, identical except for differing skin tones, which are based on the three typical skin tones used in art at Thebes around the time of the burial.