Facial reconstruction of 5,600-year old Maltese woman

[Judi Lynn]

May 13, 2013
Facial reconstruction of 5,600-year old Maltese woman
Source: Revealed...the face of a Maltese woman 5,600 years ago

Heritage Malta also launched a 3D virtual reconstruction of facial features based on one of the prehistoric skulls (over 5,000 years old) found at the Xaghra Stone Circle in Gozo. It revealed, for the very first time, what one of the earliest Maltese actually looked like.
It was a face which was much closer to what one would expect from a woman of our day and age rather than that of a person who lived on the islands over 5,000 years ago

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http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/05/facial-reconstruction-of-5600-year-old.html

[a la izquierda]

1. I could be related to her.

My mom's whole family is a mix of Mediterranean, from Sicilian, to northern Italian, to coastal French and Spanish. Her skin tone (obviously an estimation) is only a little darker than mine (and I'm half British Isles on my dad's side). She looks like every person on my mom's side.

Thanks for posting.

[mzteris]

2. arched eyebrows?? n/t

[SheilaT]

3. Do you think people never have naturally arched eyebrows?

I do.

[mzteris]

4. one might have an "arch"

but those looked plucked and/or drawn on. Definitely not "natural".

Maybe unconscious bias on the part of the artist?

[SheilaT]

5. Of course they look drawn on.

It's an artist's reconstruction after all.

[mzteris]

6. jes saying a little more xxx

accuracy might have been appropriate. I think the artist should have been capable of drawing bushy brows, ya know?

[SheilaT]

7. Why are you assuming she'd have bushy eyebrows?

I'm flabbergasted at that assumption.

[mzteris]

8. Um, when I don't pluck mine,

They're certainly not perfectly arched and smooth. I don't know any woman anywhere whose is.

Maybe "bushy" conjured up the wrong image , I'm not talking mark twain or anything, but seriously, those eyebrows looked smoothly plucked and or shaved and drawn.

I reckon I'm flabbergasted that you'd think they look au natural . . .

Whatever. It was merely an observation on my part. Ymmv.

[SheilaT]

9. Oddly enough, I have arched eyebrows that don't need plucking

[mzteris]

10. odd, indeed.

And very lucky.