Face of teenage girl from 9,000 years ago reconstructed

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Face of teenage girl from 9,000 years ago reconstructed

A team of researchers with the University of Athens and a Swedish archaeologist has reconstructed the face of a teenage girl from the Mesolithic period whose remains were found in a Greek cave. They have publicized their efforts by showcasing their work at the Acropolis Museum.

The young girl’s remains were found in 1993 in Theopetra Cave in the Thessaly region of Greece. They were dated back to approximately 9,000 years ago, which, the researchers note, puts her at a time when humans there were transitioning from hunter-gatherers to farmers—the dawning of civilization. It was for that reason the team named her Dawn, which translates to Greek as Avgi. The researchers believe she was between the ages of 15 to 18 years old (based on teeth and bone samples) when she died of an as-yet an undetermined cause.

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-teenag...nstructed.html

[Ray Allan]

Why was she given an angry expression like that? Probably because life was short and brutal 9,000 years ago.