Reconstructed head of a girl thought to be 27,000 years old.
Update:
Okay, here's some information and a video link that sheds a little more light on this young lady of (yes) 27 Thousand Years Ago.
Quoting from this video post, these would be the remains of a Gravettian Cro-Magnon of Sungir/Russia. As an upper-paleolithic person, she was part of the base of the Cro-Magnoid element in the later Finno-Ugrians.
In this video you will see several individuals recreated, and even a full-color rendering of what this particular girl might have looked like in the flesh.
6 comments:
Hi,
Sorry for my English. I am from Greece. I like your blog. I would like to ask you for more information about your nice post because I searched for it in the internet and I did not find anything.
Thank you.
Hi, thanks for asking, but I have no other information. This is an image from my image morgue, saved from years ago, with no information attached except for the quoted caption.
Now that I have a blog I've started saving all information associated with an image. But so many of my 'morgue' images were clipped well before anyone ever heard of a blog.
27000 years seems a long time...a typo perhaps? 2700 seems more reasonable...
Doing a little research (which I was trying to avoid during this heavy deadline period) indicates this is a "European Early Modern Human" which is the modern scientific term for what many still call Cro-Magnon. The time period is indeed 27 to 28,000 years ago. There is more information about this find that I will gather and add as an update.
Thank you very much!:-)
Wow. I found this image fascinating. I have read this post first time some days ago, before it got comments, and have been pondering for some time wether I would have sounded preposterous if I were to ask for more information... thanks so much for your answers to the previous comments, and for the link you just posted!
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