cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/science@lemmy.ml/t/770251
A woman in her 40s was meticulously arranged in a gully and her left hand curled beneath her head when she was laid to rest in a cave in Iraqi Kurdist
- treadful ( @treadful@lemmy.zip ) English27•7 months ago
She underlines that although there is some artistic interpretation in the face reconstruction, actual scientific data derived from the skull parts forms the basis.
Isn’t facial reconstruction from a skull almost entirely speculative?
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 3•7 months ago
You can get some information of the musculature from the bone structure, attachments are often fairly visible. But fatty tissue and skin, plus the uncertainty of the musculature still, all combine to be fairly high uncertainty ya.
- downpunxx ( @downpunxx@fedia.io ) 20•7 months ago
nonsense. that’s the us representative from the georgia 14th. i’d recognize that face anywhere.
- snooggums ( @snooggums@midwest.social ) English7•7 months ago
Is saying that all Neanderthals look alike racist?
- Dr. Wesker ( @wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•7 months ago
Shots fired!
- ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔 ( @GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ) 13•7 months ago
Who lost it? I bet they feel pretty silly now.