Gauthier
12-03-2014, 03:38 PM
Facial reconstruction of Pataud shelter woman
Dubbed “the woman from the Pataud shelter”, little is known about this figure from prehistory — except how she might have looked.
Although the dreadlocks and tattoos are pure conjecture, modern scientific techniques mean the facial features of a long-dead person can now be accurately reconstructed.
Former French make-up artist turned palaeontology expert and sculptor Elisabeth Daynes, has painstakingly created a model of Pataud woman.
Believed to have lived around 17,000 years ago in France’s southwestern Dordogne region, her skeleton was found there in a rock shelter.
The life-size model is one of two star attractions at an exhibition being held at a Bordeaux gallery entitled “The Origins of Flesh — our ancestors as you’ve never seen them before”.
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Dubbed “the woman from the Pataud shelter”, little is known about this figure from prehistory — except how she might have looked.
Although the dreadlocks and tattoos are pure conjecture, modern scientific techniques mean the facial features of a long-dead person can now be accurately reconstructed.
Former French make-up artist turned palaeontology expert and sculptor Elisabeth Daynes, has painstakingly created a model of Pataud woman.
Believed to have lived around 17,000 years ago in France’s southwestern Dordogne region, her skeleton was found there in a rock shelter.
The life-size model is one of two star attractions at an exhibition being held at a Bordeaux gallery entitled “The Origins of Flesh — our ancestors as you’ve never seen them before”.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/913/NSj5eO.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/pdNSj5eOj)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/Z71yKU.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/p9Z71yKUj)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/HRZVCo.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/idHRZVCoj)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/4DprkF.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/hl4DprkFj)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/GadViW.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/iqGadViWj)