Museum presents faces of 4,000-year-old indigenous family

[Judi Lynn]

The reconstruction was created from the remains of members of a wealthy aboriginal family
from the west coast of Canada.
Photo Credit: CBC/Canadian Museum of History



By Lynn Desjardins | [e-mail]
Thursday 11 May, 2017


The Canadian Museum of History has revealed the results of a digital facial reconstruction based on the remains of a west coast indigenous family from the shíshálh tribe, also known as the Sechelt First Nation. This tribe lives amid spectacular scenery and is proud of its communal lifestyle that prizes the wisdom of its elders.

The museum says that the shíshálh Nation requested archaeologists from the museum and the University of Toronto help excavate a burial site near to the community. The remains of five people were discovered including a man in his 50s, a young woman, a set of young, adult, male twins, and an infant.

Amid the bodies were hundreds of thousands of stone and shell beads which suggested they were tremendously wealthy. The museum calls the site “one of the most significant chiefly burial finds in North America.”

More:
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/05/11/museum-presents-faces-of-4000-year-old-indigenous-family/

[DURHAM D]

1. Beautiful family.

[Trial_By_Fire]

2. Did males shave 4000 years ago?

I wonder when and how shaving started in humans...?