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Earliest Modern Human Face Reconstruction from 315,000-Year-Old Fossils

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Earliest Modern Human Face Reconstruction from 315,000-Year-Old Fossils

Two views of the proposed Jebel Irhoud face; whose hair, facial hair and pigmentation are artistic choices.

A striking new depiction envisions an ancient Homo sapiens featuring a heavy brow, dark hair, and a beard, but it is not a picture of a single prehistoric human. In a new Heritage study, researchers have created the simulated Jebel Irhoud face from the digitally reconstructed Moroccan skull, believed to be around 315,000 years old. The Daily Mail report focused on the photo-realistic impression, while scientists published a plain black-and-white version to indicate skeletal structure. Between the two lies a useful lesson about how we picture our earliest relatives.

One Skull, Several People

The starting point of the reconstruction goes back to Irhoud 1, which was extracted from a mine in the early 1960s. The braincase and upper facial bones made up the main components of the model. Then remains Irhoud 11 provided the jawbone, and other fossil fragments were used to fill in the teeth and the upper jawbone. While these finds belonged to the same occupation layer, they were not parts of a single individual. As AO’s history of forensic facial reconstruction shows, filling gaps in a skull has always required informed choices.

Gary Manners

www.Ancient-Origins.net – Reconstructing the story of humanity’s past


Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/jebel-irhoud-face-reconstruction-00103214



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