2 Pics: Science: What a young (Stone Age) European teenager looked like 9,000 years ago… – My Comments

[This young lady looks totally European to me. Look at her features, especially the shape of her face and nose and lips. Looks European to me and not anything like "out of Africa". Jan]

Face of the Stone Age

Swedish sculptor Oscar Nilsson reconstructed the face of an 18-year-old young woman, dubbed Avgi, whose 9,000-year-old bones were found in a cave in central Greece.

He faithfully recreated each individual muscle between the bone and the skin. Because of this meticulous process, each sculpture takes about 220 hours from start to finish.

For his reconstructions, Nilsson bases the thickness of the muscle and fat on scientists’ determination of the age, sex, weight, and ethnicity of the person he’s trying to recreate.

A much more lifelike silicone "skin" is finally added over the face, complete with pores and wrinkles. Not much is known about Avgi’s life, but Nilsson hopes viewers could feel a connection with her by seeing her face.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/61509-photos-avgi-reconstruction.html

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