Rare Skull From Korea's Silla Kingdom Reconstructed

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4590-160621-korea-silla-skul ^ | Tuesday, June 21, 2016

[SunkenCiv]

Scientists have studied a rare skeleton from the Silla culture, which ruled over part of the Korean Peninsula from 57 B.C. to A.D. 935. “The skeletons are not preserved well in the soil of Korea,” bioanthropologist Dong Hoon Shin of Seoul National University College of Medicine told Live Science. The skeleton, of a woman in her late 30s, was found in a traditional coffin that had been buried near the historic capital of the Silla Kingdom, Gyeongju. Analysis of her mitochondrial DNA suggests that she belonged to a genetic lineage that is present in East Asia today. Carbon isotopes in her bones indicate that she ate a vegetarian diet. The reconstruction of her facial features and head shape from skull fragments suggests that the woman had an elongated skull. Physical anthropologist Eun Jin Woo of Seoul National University thinks that the skull grew that way naturally, since it does not display the shape changes usually seen when heads are deliberately deformed. “In this regard, we think her head should be considered as normal variation in the group,” Woo said.

[familyop]

Sincerely, that may well be the skull of a redhead, in case no one noticed. [See a redhead today.]

[familyop]

"The new 3D reconstruction of the woman’s face..."

Redheads here looking at that and laughing. ;-)

[familyop]

"The new 3D reconstruction of the woman’s face..."

Compare the chin and mouth on the clever sculpture to those on the skull.

[Larry Lucido]

Her name was Silly Silla Sally.

[gigster]

Wonder if she's still available? BJ would do her, and her mummy.

[blam]

[blam]

"The only ancient forensic reconstructions I’ve seen are some Late Kingdom Egyptians, the museum had their skulls layin’ around."

(Ahem)

10,600 year old mummy found in Nevada:

Spirit Cave Man

"Death came for the Spirit Cave Man 10,630 years ago amid waves of pain. His body rested in a shallow grave in a cave near Fallon, but not for eternity. Two Nevada archeologists found his partially-mummified body in 1940, but his antiquity was not known until tests were done in 1994."

"Some anthropologists want to study him further. Nevada Indian leaders want his remains reburied without further testing"

[SunkenCiv]

;”)

[SunkenCiv]

Nickname was “Mustang”.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) I meant in person. One of those had a name (because the head was still attached to the body, and the entire burial cartonnage and coffin were present), the other one was just a mummy head sold years ago to a local who was visiting Egypt at the time.

[ZULU]

Hmmm. Looks more like Daddy than a Mummy!

[Fred Nerks]

It's the elongated skull that interests me, examples now found all around the planet:

Children of the Elongated...source link

Akhenaten

[blam]

"Akhenaten "

I've read that Akhenaten is believed to have had Marfan Syndrome.

I had cousins (they all died in their 20's) who had Marfan Syndrome.

[Fred Nerks]

Problem is, there are hundreds all over the world...