The woman from the Stone Age who was restored (press photo)
The appearance of a Stone Age woman living 4,000 years ago has been restored with the help of advanced technology in Sweden. In the amazing life-size reconstruction, based on the woman’s skull discovered 99 years ago in Sweden, she leans on her walking stick and looks ahead. The recovery is now on display in Sweden.
The woman’s skull was first discovered during the construction of a road in the village of Legmansoren in Sweden in 1923. Road workers Her skeleton remains are buried next to the remains of a boy, probably a 7-year-old boy. The woman model, “Another possibility is that they are brothers. But they can also be relatives, or just friends. It is impossible to know because the DNA has not been well preserved for these thousands of years.”
Shortening the restoration process of the skull
Despite the possibility that it was not a mother and son, when Nelson shaped the woman’s pose and sculpted her face, he imagined her standing close to her son running in front of her. And so in the reconstruction the woman is seen with a serious but gentle look, which looks as if she is telling her child to be careful.
The woman and child from the Neolithic period (sub-period in the Stone Age), were buried in the form of a coffin of long, flat stones. According to the researchers, the woman apparently died in her late or early 20s, and is 150 inches tall. The woman’s remains showed no signs of malnutrition, injury or disease, although she may have died from an illness that left no mark on her remains, Nilsson said.
When Nilsson took on the task of restoration, he scanned her skull and made a plastic copy of it using a 3D printer. The thickness of a person’s facial tissue and overall appearance, but because the woman’s DNA was too weak, he was unsure about her genetic background, hair, or eye color.
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So what he did is an intelligent guess as to her appearance. There were three large waves of migration to ancient Scandinavia: in the first period, 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers with dark skin tended to have blue eyes; The second wave included farmers with pale, dark-haired and brown-eyed farmers from the south, who moved north about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, when this woman was alive; And the third wave included the Yamana culture, from modern-day Ukraine, who were a little dark-skinned from the farmers and brought with them the art of metal production when they arrived about 3,500 years ago, making them the first Bronze Age culture in the region, Nilsson said.
Based on this information, Nilsson gave the woman brown hair and eyes and fair skin like that of the farmers. Despite this, the woman was not necessarily a farmer by profession. “We can not say for sure if she is if she is living the life of the early farmers,” Nilsson said. “But we have chosen the safest interpretation, according to the period in which she lived.”
In addition, in the reconstruction the woman is dressed from head to toe in fur and leather. This is the work of Helena Jarom, an independent archaeologist from Sweden who uses Stone Age techniques. In order to choose her attire, Jarom explored the climate, landscape, vegetation and ancient animal life of the Neolithic Legmansor. Based on her discoveries, she designed the woman’s clothes from elk skins, and the shoes from beaver skins and foxes. Modern people often think of Stone Age humans as primitive, dressed in ugly, sloppy furs, but Jarum undermines this notion.
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