Revealed...the face of a Maltese woman 5,600 years ago

[Virtuous]

COMPLEXION IS JUST AN ASSUMPTION.

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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.



http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130507/local/revealed-the-face-of-a-maltese-woman-5-600-years-ago.468752

[MarkyMark]

Looks very Pan-Mediterranean. I have no doubt people from ancient Iberia, Italy, Greece, Anatolia, and Syria resembled this.

[alfieb]

Could still pass today, even after all of the successive migrations. :coffee:

[Sikeliot]

Looks a bit Sardinian. Paleolithic Med.

[ABest]

I think that's how Med people originally looked like. I consider such a phenotype to be a very pure European type anthropologically and genetically.

[Virtuous]

I'm wondering if they mistakenly examined a modern skull, lol.

[ABest]

Gracile characteristics, long face, brown eyes, dark brown hair and an earthly complexion. I think these were the characteristics of the Med peoples who moved into the Med region and afterwards to the North, mixing with UP people, producing North Atlantids and other combinations.

[Virtuous]

Gracile characteristics, long face, brown eyes, dark brown hair and an earthly complexion. I think these were the characteristics of the Med peoples who moved into the Med region and afterwards to the North, mixing with UP people, producing North Atlantids and other combinations.

Then Northern supremacists come with bullshit such as Malta is not European, Malta is insignificant...bitch please, this woman might have been your ancestor for all you know, silly Nordid :lol:.

[MarkyMark]

Germanics(Brits, Germans, Scandos, Austrians) and Slavs(Russians, Ukranians, Balkans) never seem to really appreciate the Mediterranean aspect of Europe. This is obviously shown when we see blacks claim ancient greece was black and all that bullshit, and in response they(Germanics and Slavs) try to white wash us as much as possible, trying to convince themselves that we are Nords, when we are actually like this.

[Virtuous]

Meds brought progressive features to Europe!

This makes me realize...I look more pre-historic than she does, with my Neanderthal features :laugh:

[alfieb]

If Eastern Slavs don't want to appreciate the Mediterranean, that's fine with me. There's little I appreciate about their own backwaters either.

I like Balkan Slavs. I like Czechs and Slovenes. Other than that, you can keep them.

[Virtuous]

Let the shitstorm begin.

[MarkyMark]

Pan-Mediterraneanism for the win?

[Virtuous]

Pan-Mediterraneanism for the win?

SPQR ftw.

[Sikeliot]

I consider such a phenotype to be a very pure European type anthropologically and genetically.

I don't know if I'd describe it as a strictly European type. To me it looks rather like today's Berids and Berberids, which would essentially be a Paleolithic Cromagnid type that may have, at one point, been found on all sides of the Mediterranean.

I can't picture that type turning into Nordids when moving north, but rather remaining today's Berids.

[alfieb]

If it's North of the Alps or East of the Danube, I have no interest in it. Burn it all to the ground.

[Virtuous]

One of the comments on TimesofMalta


I agree with the general outlines but someone slipped on those eyebrows. Nature meant the eyebrows to be protective and in those days the provocative lines shown did not evolve.Those eyebrows contain three curves with variation in radius,finishing at a point which is a modern tendency intended to, stimulate, excite, arouse, inspire. In those days normal eyebrows were constant in width, hence dull

has point, unless they were so advanced to have tweezers already.

[ABest]

I don't know if I'd describe it as a strictly European type. To me it looks rather like today's Berids and Berberids, which would essentially be a Paleolithic Cromagnid type that may have, at one point, been found on all sides of the Mediterranean.

I can't picture that type turning into Nordids when moving north, but rather remaining today's Berids.

Oh, I agree about that. I was just pointing out that it constitutes one of the founding types of modern Europe as we know it, regardless of their origin. That's why I said "moved into the Med region and then to the North".

[Virtuous]

I don't know if I'd describe it as a strictly European type. To me it looks rather like today's Berids and Berberids, which would essentially be a Paleolithic Cromagnid type that may have, at one point, been found on all sides of the Mediterranean.

I can't picture that type turning into Nordids when moving north, but rather remaining today's Berids.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

[Kastrioti1443]

She is too dark to be european mediterrenean, if this was her natural skin.

[alfieb]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ohxkoqD31qk88o4.gif

[Sikeliot]

I just wouldn't classify her as "Med" but rather Berid.

[Virtuous]

She is too dark to be european mediterrenean, if this was her natural skin.

This is like the one of the most idiotic comments I've ever seen. Don't you realize that these people lived constantly under the sun in pre-historic times? It's also just an assumption of the complexion btw.

[Virtuous]

I just wouldn't classify her as "Med" but rather Berid.

First Paleo Atlantid now Berid, decide man. Decide.

[ABest]

I just wouldn't classify her as "Med" but rather Berid.

You are right here tbh. I was just referring to population movements and mindlessly classified her as Med. What I meant is that such types (Berid, as you correctly pointed out) were important in not only the creation of the Med world but also in the creation of other types in the North.

[alfieb]

Apparently Berid/Paleosardinid is also Paleomaltid/Paleosicilid. :coffee:

As a partially Berid guy myself, this makes me ancient.

[Virtuous]

Thing is, when you mention Berid these days, one easily thinks of SSA/Arabid admixed ones, when it's not the case.

[alfieb]

It's our job to promote Berid awareness.

[Virtuous]

It's our job to promote Berid awareness.

Berid Awareness Campaign 2013 :lol:


intro: "Many Berids today suffer from discrimination..."

[alfieb]

"It's too easy to confuse Berid with Berberid, but they are not one in the same in the slightest. Indeed, We Berids were in Southern Europe long before the Carthaginians and their elephants."

[Virtuous]

"...you can do the difference, just by donating a tiny little amount of" *booing starts*

[ChocolateFace]

I don't know if I'd describe it as a strictly European type. To me it looks rather like today's Berids and Berberids, which would essentially be a Paleolithic Cromagnid type that may have, at one point, been found on all sides of the Mediterranean.

I can't picture that type turning into Nordids when moving north, but rather remaining today's Berids.

Sikeliot hit it right on the nail. This women is Berid. 100 percent. It also makes sense since CM types are the oldest European's.

[Virtuous]

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[Virtuous]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/jewellery-through-the-times-slideshow/5600-old-skull-seen-during-jewellery-times-part-photo-221218258.html

here you can see the skull, care to classify?

[Sikeliot]

"It's too easy to confuse Berid with Berberid, but they are not one in the same in the slightest. Indeed, We Berids were in Southern Europe long before the Carthaginians and their elephants."

It's not that they are the same but rather that both are very ancient, and related, Cromagnid forms that in large part have been overridden by Med types.

Most people we call Berid and Berberid today are Med influenced. This woman looks like a pure Cromagnid type.

[Virtuous]

So if these people were cromagnon giants that built Megalithic temples, why do Historians call this period "Neolithic"?

[Sikeliot]

Let's put it this way.

MaltaFalzon and alfieb look like Sicilians and Maltese in the Paleolithic.
I look like the Neolithic invaders that took over your lands.

:D

[Virtuous]

Damn.

translated to CM language: *groans*

[Sikeliot]

Southern Europe in the Paleolithic would have looked like Sardinians. They have almost nothing Neolithic and they are very inbred.

[Virtuous]

Southern Europe in the Paleolithic would have looked like Sardinians. They have almost nothing Neolithic and they are very inbred.

I am reporting this to Loki.

[CrystalMaiden]

I am reporting this to Loki.

Malta is a tiny island, with a tiny genepool.

So it's not that far fetched.

[alfieb]

Let's put it this way.

MaltaFalzon and alfieb look like Sicilians and Maltese in the Paleolithic.
I look like the Neolithic invaders that took over your lands.

:D

Nah, you look like the Greeks who lost their lands to our Arab and Norman ancestors. :laugh:

You stole it from us, then we stole it back.

[Nassbean]

She is pan-mediterranean