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Researchers study the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived about 10,500 years ago in what is now known that Belgium has produced the rebuilding of her face using Old DNA.
A team led by scientists from the University of Ghnja found that women would have had blue eyes and a little lighter than most other people from the Central Stone in Western Europe who have been analyzed so far, according to a statement issued by the university on Tuesday.
Isabeld de Groot, an archaeologist at the University of Ghost, who leads the research project in Belgium, told CNN that the woman came from The same population group as a cheddar manWho lived in what is now known as the United Kingdom at the same time, but had lighter skin.
Rebuilding a possible scene of daily life in the women’s community. ULCO GLIMMERVEEN/Archeology Department
De Jarot said that the results challenge the previous assumptions that European fishermen colleges shared the same genetic makeup, and explains that there is already a great contrast in the skin color between the different population.
“From the skull, we can also say that it was somewhere between 35 and 60 years.” De Jarot told CNN on Wednesday.
“She also had a nose with a high -nanny bridge, similar to a cheddar man,” De Jrot added. “It also has strong hills to attack although she is a female.”
The remains of the woman were found in the Margo Cave in Dinant during an archaeological digging in 1988-1989, along with the bodies of eight other women.
She added that this was an “unusual discovery” as most medium burial sites contain a mixture of men, women and children.
“Several skeletons have been sprayed with the Maghra, which is a practice associated with ritual or symbolic behavior,” said De Jarot.
She added that most of the bodies were carefully covered with stone fragments, while an individual cut signs of her skull, which was made after her death.
“It is also interesting that this burial cave has been used over several hundred years, so that they were places of memory that people would return despite the lifestyle of their mobile fishermen,” said De Gart.
She added: “These results indicate complex burial habits and ask interesting questions about the social structure and cultural practices of this early fisherman community.”
Reconstruction in the photo during the veil detection ceremony. Department of Antiquities at the University of Ghost
Philip Chromby, an archaeologist at the university, which is part of the project team, said that the color of the old woman’s skin was a “little surprise”, but there is a limited group of the medium stone age that can be compared.
“All the individuals who have been analyzed so far on the old DNA in Western Europe belong to the same genetic group,” he said.
“So it is a little surprising, but on the other hand, there is expected that there will be some variations in the wide region of Western Europe, as is the case today.”
When the remains were recovered, there was no way to conduct research in the old DNA, Chromby said.
“Technologies have evolved from excavation,” CNN told CNN on Wednesday, adding that the multidisciplinary project is “a re -analysis of old drilling using technical state methods.”
Crombé detailed how “good quality” DNA was taken from the woman’s skull, allowing the creation of “very detailed reconstruction”.
The color of her skin, hair color and eye color depends on the old DNA, while other elements such as their jewelry and tattoos are based on archaeological data obtained from other excavations in the Meusee River basin, which also allowed them to build a picture of their daily life.
In one of the pits – a previous camp site on the banks of the river – scientists found stone tools, bones of wild game residues and fish residues, Crombé said, providing evidence that these people were Bedouin.
He said: “They are still moving because they depend entirely on natural resources: wild game, wild plants and fish.” “So he forced them to move through the scene and transfer their settlements.”
Kromandi said that many questions remain about these medium societies, which were the last university college in Western Europe.
He added that the team is now analyzing the remains to collect relations between the people who were buried together, and also plan to study the extent of their fish.
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