Researchers created a 3D image of a Bronze Age woman who was likely part of Europe's 'Bell Beaker' culture.
In 1987, Scottish workers accidentally unearthed the burial of a Bronze Age woman during a road construction project. The stone, coffin-like tomb, called a cist, contained the woman's skeletal remains alongside grave goods, including a short-necked pottery beaker, a cow bone fragment and small pieces of flint.
Based on her grave goods, it's possible that Ava was part of the Bronze Age"Bell Beaker" culture, which was common in Europe during this time period and known for its distinctively round pottery drinking vessels.To make the three-dimensional facial approximation, researchers used existing computed tomography scans of Ava's roughly 3,800-year-old skull.
"Thanks to anatomical, statistical and logical data, it was possible to reconstruct" her face even without the mandible, study author Cícero Moraes, a Brazilian graphics expert, told Live Science in an email."I then set out to trace the profile of the face, which we do through a combination of soft tissue thickness markers, which inform the limits of the skin," he explained.
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