Say "Hello" to Ava... from the Bronze Age

[painshill]

Pretty, isn't she?




I love this kind of reconstruction work:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3715379/The-face-Ava-revealed-Scientists-reconstruct-head-Bronze-Age-woman-died-far-north-Scotland-3-700-years-ago.html

[Scorpion68]

Roger - she's absolutely beautiful. I saw some of this reconstruction work in progress on the internet sometime back and it was fascinating how they rebuilt the face based on the skull and known dimensions of the human anatomy. Astounding really that we can see what she looked like almost 4,000 years ago. ...Chuck

[Cskelton]

Very cool.

[2ndoldman]

Facial reconstruction and the aging techniques are very helpful when used for identification purposes today but seeing this used on ancient bones is very cool.

[painshill]

This is my favourite:



It’s Phillip II of Macedon (Alexander the Great’s father).

It’s by Britain’s leading expert in facial reconstructions… a guy called Richard Neave. He has helped the police on a number of occasions but also does archaeological work. In this case he was provided with a skull and told the region it had come from… but not that it had been recovered from a high-status grave that was suspected to be the final resting place of Phillip II.

The eye damage on his reconstruction is consistent with an arrow wound known to have been inflicted during the siege of Methone in 354 BC.

A collection of pictures representing Neaves’s remarkable work has been published in book form under the title “Making Faces”.

[2ndoldman]

The amazing workmanship that went into making this is very evident.
It look like a 3D photograph of a living person.
Especially when you enhance it.

[Hoss]

She is lovely. Reminds me of a polish gal I had a thing for way back when. Sorry!, she was a Naturalized American citizen born in Poland raised here in the states. Same hair, wide set jaw and eye color. She could easily pass for the girls sister.

[Kyflintguy]

She looks tough, reminds me of the girl that use to beat me up on the playground!
I guess being King had its drawbacks, like arrows to the face... Ouch!
Interesting work!

[OBION]

Now if we could only spend a day with them.... Thanks for sharing