Posted on 05/15/2013 7:47:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Malta's megalithic temples are slowly revealing secrets about a population that was clever, artistic, creative and talented with an eye for detail and a taste for the delicate and the exotic.
Heritage Malta this evening surprised guests at the Malta Fashion Week with an exhibition entitled Jewellery through the times showing that Malta's first residents were not the aggressive, dirty individuals with unkempt hair which most imagine them to have been.
The exhibition was followed by a fashion show of replica prehistoric jewellery, which preceded the main highlight: changing the misconception related to the image of prehistoric people by means of a unique reconstruction.
The items featured in the fashion show were replicas of objects worn by individuals who lived on the Maltese islands some 5600 years ago. The artefacts exhibited were discovered at various Prehistoric Temple sites and form part of the permanent display at Heritage Malta’s National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.
Heritage Malta also launched a 3D virtual reconstruction of facial features based on one of the prehistoric skulls (over 5,000 years old) found at the Xagħra Stone Circle in Gozo. It revealed, for the very first time, what one of the earliest Maltese actually looked like.
It was a face which was much closer to what one would expect from a woman of our day and age rather than that of a person who lived on the islands over 5,000 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofmalta.com ...
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That prehistoric Marija l-Ghawdxija
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I’d say something about how attractive she is, but I don’t want to be compared to Bill Clinton.
When Paul and Silas were shipwrecked on Malta, they described the local people as treating them with great kindness.
5,000 years is just an instant in time. Why would they think she would look any different from a person alive today?
Geeze, looks just like Juanita, from the lunch truck.
I heard the wimmen grew beards in them days ....
"I'd Hit IT".
...There, I feel better now.
Here's what another of the earliest Maltese actually looked like:
Charles Darwin theorized that the Maltese Dog breed could be as old as 6,000 years
One of their genetic characteristics was as they aged the rumps got bigger. May be some FR can contribute .
Dog years or people years?
First there is a lunch truck, then there is no lunch truck, then there is.
First there is a lunch truck, then there is no lunch truck.
Oh Juanita, oh Juanita, oh Juanita, I call your name.
Laz would hit it. AND not guilty.
I’d o’ hit it.
I heard the wimmen grew beards in them days ....
And braided their legs.
The 16 yo South American mummy. “If I wasnt married, I’d date her.” Lol.
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