@ancestralwhispersdotorg Ancestral Whispers
Ancestral Whispers is creating facial reconstructions of ancient individuals from various cultures and time periods. The reconstructions, shared on TikTok, showcase people from cultures such as the Natufians, Yamnaya, Scythians, and Celts, among others. These reconstructions provide a glimpse into the lives and appearances of people from the past, shedding light on human history and ancestry.
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"Yamnaya Chief Facial Reconstruction ancestralwhispers.org The robustly built man standing [---] cm tall was buried with a 750-gram copper "sword-cudgel-scepter" largest metal object among Yamnaya. His weapon is analogous to Indra's cudgel Hercules' club and Thor's hammer. The cudgel bears a striking similarity to the weapons favored by Indo-European deities and particularly the one wielded by Indra despite his grave being significantly older than the Rigveda. The man's auDNA and uniparentals were typical of the Yamnaya: R1b-Z2103 and H6a1b. #yamnaya #steppe #indoeuropean #phenotype #genetics"
TikTok Link 2025-05-03T12:44Z 22.2K followers, 108.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya woman from the Caspian Steppe ancestralwhispers.org This woman belonged to the Samara group of the Yamnaya culture. She had a robust skull with a broad face a square chin a pronounced though broken nasal bridge and a heavy jaw with a wide ramus. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #huntergathererskull #farmerskull #yamnaya #skull #indoeuropean #tocharian #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-14T14:22Z 18.6K followers, 150.6K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 3400-Year-Old Proto-Scythian Man ancestralwhispers.org Discovered at the Chernovaya site at Minusinsk Siberia this individual belonged to the Karasuk culture - one of the primary genetic contributors to the population that would later become the Scythians. This culture is also likely responsible for the Iranic language of the Scythians. The Karasuk population predominantly belonged to the brachycranial type of the Europoid race. Although some Mongoloid admixture was present in the Karasuk skull series its proportion was relatively insignificant. He is depicted with"
TikTok Link 2025-06-08T11:59Z 21.9K followers, 77.8K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a Medieval Man from Chechnya ancestralwhispers.org This man was discovered in a catacomb burial in Duba-Yurt Chechnya and dated to the Alan-Khazar period approximately [--------] years ago. During the Middle Ages the Chechen-Ingush people were recorded in historical sources as the Durdzuks. The highland Nakh communities developed a distinct culture while the lowland Nakh populations had closer interactions with steppe peoples such as the Alans and Khazars. His clothing is based on finds from the medieval Moshevaya Balka site. The man had a medium-large cranial length of"
TikTok Link 2025-06-13T09:06Z [----] followers, 52.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2870-year-old Cimmerian man from Volgograd Oblast ancestralwhispers.org The Cimmerians were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the broader Siberian region. As they migrated westward they came into contact with another Iranic group associated with the Srubnaya culture. The interaction and mixing of these groups gave rise to the Pre-Scythian horizon one of which was the Chernogorovskaya Culture culture to which this man belonged to. Over time these nomadic populations also absorbed genetic influences from various European and Caucasian groups. The individual"
TikTok Link 2025-06-17T09:06Z 25K followers, 98.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a [---] year old man from East Kazakhstan ancestralwhispers.org The early Turkic peoples emerged on the eastern Eurasian steppe during the first millennium CE forming confederations such as the GkTrks that would come to dominate much of Central Asia. The individual was of a mixed West and East Eurasian type. His contemporaries had on average a medium cranial length of [---] mm a large cranial breadth of [---] mm and a large cheekbone breadth of [-----] mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #skull #turkic #kipchak #gokturk #steppenomad #looksmax"
TikTok Link 2025-06-21T09:42Z 25K followers, 172.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4700-year-old man from Kenya ancestralwhispers.org The Neolithic skeleton from Willeys Kopje II exhibited a combination of unique anatomical characteristics: a very long and narrow skull shape (ultradolichocranial) with a flattened crown a broad and rounded forehead reduced brow ridges and a pronounced back of the head. The face was broad and of medium height with forward-projecting cheekbones and a straight jawline. The eye sockets were exceptionally tall and narrow (hypsiconchic) and the nasal opening was sharp and narrow consistent with what anthropologists"
TikTok Link 2025-06-22T12:45Z 13.3K followers, 35K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3900-year-old man from Abkhazia Discovered in the Yupsy Grotto in Abkhazia Georgia the man belonged to the Dolmen cultural horizon. The people of the Dolmen culture were genetically similar to modern West Georgians and Abkhazians. This culture can be divided into three regional groups spanning from Abkhazia to the northern Krasnodar region and was unified by a cargo cult-like tradition of building dolmens that imitated those of the Maykop culture elites. In Abkhazia the Dolmen people were likely replaced or assimilated by the Kartvelian-associated Colchian culture"
TikTok Link 2025-06-24T11:05Z 13.3K followers, 61.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an 8500-year-old man from Ukraine Uncovered at the Vasilievka [--] site in Ukraine the people from this site likely migrated from the Middle Danube region and were related to the Iron Gates and Lepenski Vir foragers of the Balkans. Genetically these groups were a mix of Western Hunter-Gatherers Eastern Hunter-Gatherers and Anatolian Hunter-Gatherers with the people of Vasilievka [--] carrying additional Eastern Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. The Mesolithic and Neolithic foragers of Ukraine stood around [---] cm tall and were known for their cranial robusticity. This man had an"
TikTok Link 2025-06-27T09:58Z 13.3K followers, 158.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of Cheddar Man Cheddar Man was a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer who lived around [-----] years ago in what is now Somerset England. As a member of the Western Hunter-Gatherer population he was part of a broader European group known for a foraging lifestyle that predated the advent of farming. His genetic profile suggests dark skin blue or hazel eyes and dark wavy hair. Cheddar Man was morphologically more gracile than the average WHG with less pronounced zygomatic bones larger eye orbits (35 x 40) and a wider nasal cavity. He had a large cranial length of [---] mm and a"
TikTok Link 2025-07-11T12:09Z 16.6K followers, 60.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3300-year-old man from Bay-Dag Tuva The Mongun-Taiga culture was a pastoralist society centered in Tuva with extensions into the Altai and western Mongolia. Known primarily through its burials - shallow pits or ground-level graves covered with stone mounds and typically lacking grave goods - the culture shows strong regional continuity with the Karasuk culture in metallurgy and burial form. In Mongolia similar burials are often called "Sagsai" though many scholars consider Mongun-Taiga and Sagsai to be the same cultural horizon. Around [----] BC the Deer"
TikTok Link 2025-07-12T12:30Z 16.6K followers, 40.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 9500-year-old man from France Combe Capelle was a WHG from Mesolithic France. Initially believed to be around [-----] years old later radiocarbon dating confirmed that he was in fact much younger. He had a sturdy build but short stature standing approximately [---] cm tall. His skull was predominantly of a primitive Europoid type exhibiting several undifferentiated Cro-Magnon features. These included a low extremely elongated cranial vault (cranial length: [---] mm) a pronounced brow ridge a sloping forehead vertically oriented eye sockets and a massive lower jaw with a"
TikTok Link 2025-07-13T12:52Z 18.9K followers, 39K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3300-year-old man from Dagestan The Ginchi necropolis in Dagestan spans multiple periods. This individual was found in the Late Bronze Age layer of the site. The Bronze Age people of Ginchi were descendants of the Kura-Araxian culture with additional Steppe ancestry from Eneolithic to Catacomb sources. Genetically sampled Bronze Age individuals from Ginchi were exclusively of a single Y-DNA haplogroup J1-Z1842 which remains the dominant haplogroup among modern Dagestanis. Additionally the autosomal DNA profile of the Ginchi population forms the core component of the"
TikTok Link 2025-07-23T10:49Z 20.1K followers, 55K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of Nonosabasut Chief Nonosabasut was a prominent leader or headman of the Beothuk people an Indigenous group native to Newfoundland Canada. The Beothuk were known for their distinctive red ochre body paint and semi-nomadic lifestyle relying on fishing hunting and gathering. Nonosabasut is remembered for his efforts to resist European encroachment and to protect his people's way of life during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Beothuk faced significant challenges including the loss of land conflict with settlers and diseases brought by European colonizers"
TikTok Link 2025-07-29T09:57Z 25K followers, 62.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3800-year-old Andronovo man from Kazakhstan The Andronovo culture was an Indo-European culture related to the Sintashta culture - ancestors of the Indo-Iranics. This individual came from Kirgilda a site near the border between Russia and Kazakhstan located [--] km directly south of the Russian town of Orsk. The Andronovo cranial series were characterized by increased robusticity compared to the Sintashtans and their ancestors the Fatyanovans. They exhibited an average cranial length of [---] mm cranial width of [---] mm and cheekbone width of [---] mm. #phenotype"
TikTok Link 2025-07-31T09:39Z 26.6K followers, 76.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya man Buried in a kurgan at Sergeevka Ukraine the man exhibited signs of deforming arthrosis - a condition that typically develops due to heavy physical exertion poor nutrition of the hyaline cartilage and injuries. Most often such changes are seen in old age as a natural physiological process a feature noted in the Sergeevka skeleton. Yamnaya skulls from Ukraine were generally more gracile than those from Samara. On average Ukrainian Yamnaya males had a cranial length of [---] mm a cranial width of [---] mm and a cheekbone width of [-----] mm."
TikTok Link 2025-08-12T12:23Z 25.9K followers, 89.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya man The Yamnaya culture represents the late Proto-Indo-European stage. They occupied the Pontic-Caspian steppe and are regarded as the benchmark for Indo-European ancestry in archaeogenetics. The Yamnaya of the Volga-Samara region were generally among the most robust groups. This individual belonged to the Paleoeuropid type. He had a huge cranial length of [---] mm an above-average cranial breadth of [---] mm an average to below-average porion-bregma height of [---] mm and a large bizygomatic breadth of [---] mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #anthropology"
TikTok Link 2025-08-19T08:37Z 25K followers, 42.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year old man from Turkmenistan The delta of the Tedzhen River was home to one of the most developed Bronze Age societies in the world which included this individual. During his era the BMAC culture had expanded and diversified into slightly different subcultures. Western groups in Anau and Kara-Depe were notable for their colorful pottery while the eastern ones in Altyn-Depe and the Geoksiur Oasis produced pottery with simpler decoration. Geoksiur and the BMAC as a whole were connected through trade to other major civilizations including the Indus Valley"
TikTok Link 2025-08-25T09:15Z 25K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3300-year-old man from Azerbaijan This individual buried in Kurgan [--] near the village of Arvana (Yardimli district) belonged to the Khojaly-Gedebey and Talysh-Mughan archaeological cultures. The burial dating to the end of the 2nd beginning of the 1st millennium BC contained rich grave goods including ceramic vessels a bronze dagger and a bronze rapier-type sword. The man stood roughly [---] cm tall and had a very large cranial length of [---] mm a small cranial width of [---] mm and a narrow cheekbone width of [---] mm. The most striking features of this individual are the"
TikTok Link 2025-08-28T12:42Z 25K followers, 37.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 10000-year-old EHG In [----] in the Peschyanitsa area of the Kargopol district Arkhangelsk region Russia S.V. Oshibkina discovered a destroyed Mesolithic burial. This was the second Mesolithic burial site identified in the Kargopol area. The first burial ground was found near the village of Popovo. The EHGs were a predominantly ANE population with some WHG admixture. The find at Popovo contains the oldest R1a sample identified to date. The man was [------] cm tall with a small cranial width of [---] mm a medium-to-large cranial length of [---] mm and a moderately large"
TikTok Link 2025-08-30T09:00Z 25K followers, 28.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old man from Iran Hasanlu is an archaeological site of an ancient city located in northwest Iran in the province of West Azerbaijan just south of Lake Urmia. The settlement was likely associated with the Mannaeans a Hurro-Urartian people with a possible Indo-European substrate related to the Armenic branch. The site is most famous for its dramatic destruction. At the end of the 9th century BC Hasanlu was sacked and burned preserving a single moment in time much like Pompeii. Buildings artifacts and even traces of the citys inhabitants were sealed beneath"
TikTok Link 2025-09-05T11:49Z 25.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4600-year-old Yamnaya man from Orenburg. He was an elderly man buried beneath a kurgan mound that reached up to [---] m in height and more than [--] m across. His skull painted with ochre across the forehead and around the eyes was well preserved though the rest of the skeleton had been disturbed by ancient looting. Despite this the burial retained rich ritual traces: ochre deeply permeated the soil wooden structures once covered the grave and animal bones ceramics and cremated remains were placed around him. The mound itself was a monumental construction. Its builders"
TikTok Link 2025-09-10T12:27Z 25.5K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3000-year-old man from Pakistan The man found at Timargarha belonged to the Iron Age Gandhara Grave culture of Pakistan. This culture was genetically diverse showing admixture between local IVC-like populations BMAC Aigyrzhal (Eneolithic Central Asia + Afanasievo + ANE) and Andronovo steppe groups. He had an average-sized cranium with a cranial capacity of [----] cc but displayed pronounced hypermorphy with massive features: broad mastoids a strong nuchal crest and rounded orbits. Most of the sagittal suture had fused and dental wear suggests he was at least [--] years"
TikTok Link 2025-09-14T09:29Z 25.9K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 6500-year-old woman from Turkmenistan The people of Monjukly-Dep belonged to the Eneolithic Central Asian cluster largely descended from Iran_N with additional ANE admixture likely introduced by Tutkaul/Kelteminar-related groups. The skull from Burial [--] at Monjukly-Dep belonged to a mature woman. It was pentagonal in shape mesocranial with a straight forehead a small flattened face and pronounced upper maxilla protrusion. These traits resemble some skulls from Mohenjo-Daro (4th3rd millennium BC) though they appear more marked here. Not all researchers agree on such"
TikTok Link 2025-09-20T15:39Z 27.4K followers, 32.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 6900-year-old man from the Czech Republic The man belonged to the Moravian Painted Pottery culture a local continuation of the Linear Pottery culture a Neolithic farming tradition. His forehead was wide and arched with a weak brow ridge. The cheekbones bore a marginal tubercle. The jaw was short and broad with a tall chin and outward-turned angles. The temporal bone had a large mastoid process. The back of the skull was arched and smooth with wormian bones present in the lambdoid suture. Cranial measurements indicate: a short broad skull (brachycranic) a high"
TikTok Link 2025-09-24T12:23Z 26.6K followers, 18.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian man This man around [--] years old was buried in the same kurgan(number 16)rich in accompanying inventoryas a woman of about [--] years in Berel Altai Kazakhstan. Morphologically the two differed: the man displayed more West Eurasian traits and was likely of local Pazyryk Iranic Scythian elite origin whereas the woman exhibited more East Eurasian traits likely associated with the Korgantas culture and has been speculated by archaeologists and anthropologists to have been incorporated into the elite stratum of Pazyryk society. Both"
TikTok Link 2025-10-04T09:42Z 27.3K followers, 35.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Japanese man from the Edo period Shken-ji with a cut off genital ancestralwhispers.org Either a townsman or a low-ranking samurai he was gracile with a medium-small cranial length of 170mm small cranial breadth of 127mm medium-small facial breadth of [-----] mm and his genital had been cut off. At the location of this cut mark the arcuate pubic ligament attaches. Surrounding muscles include the ischiocavernosus the left and right crus of the genital the sphincter muscle of the urethra and the transversus perinei profundus. Most importantly this area marks the root of"
TikTok Link 2025-05-30T07:39Z 38.2K followers, 130.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of the first horserider on record ancestralwhispers.org Found in Csongrd Hungary and dating back approximately [----] years this individual represents the earliest known horse rider as evidenced by signs of the so-called "horseman syndrome" - a pattern of skeletal trauma and wear typically associated with frequent horseback riding. These include changes in the pelvis femur and lower spine caused by prolonged riding posture and mechanical stress. According to anthropological investigations the interred individual was a 35-year-old male. The skeleton displays robust"
TikTok Link 2025-06-02T12:36Z 38.4K followers, 121.7K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 3800-Year-Old Man from Uzbekistan ancestralwhispers.org The people of Bronze Age Sapalli Tepe belonged to the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex genetic cluster. BMAC cluster autosomally largely consisted of Iran_N with some Mesopotamian and ANE input. The genetic input from this cluster persists in populations across Central Asia Iran and parts of South Asia to this day. Men from Sapalli Tepe had an average height of [-----] cm. Their craniums were of average to gracile build with an average length of [---] mm width of [---] mm and cheekbone breadth of [---] mm."
TikTok Link 2025-06-09T10:18Z 38.6K followers, 84.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an Iberomaurusian from Afalou in Algeria. ancestralwhispers.org The Iberomaurusian culture was once widespread throughout North Africa. The people exhibited largely robust Caucasoid features and averaged a height of [------] cm. The genetic legacy of these ancient hunter-gatherers can still be found in modern North African populations. Iberomaurusians were morphologically similar to European Upper Paleolithic individuals. The Taforalt cluster which represents the Iberomaurusians in ancient DNA was largely homozygous for the AA genotype of SNP rs17646946 a variant"
TikTok Link 2025-06-10T08:15Z 38.2K followers, 94.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Cuman-Kipchak ancestralwhispers.org He was buried in a kurgan in Ukraine in Znam'yanka Luhansk dated to the 10th13th centuries. The Cuman-Kipchaks cranial series from the vicinity was characterized by a mix of West and East Eurasian morphological influences with the latter showing affinities to Alans and Slavs. The Cumans were a nomadic Turkic people who emerged from the Eurasian steppe during the early medieval period. As part of the larger Kipchak confederation they played a significant role in the politics and warfare of Eastern Europe interacting with Rus'"
TikTok Link 2025-06-14T09:53Z 28.1K followers, 80.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a [-----] year-old man from Sudan ancestralwhispers.org The Mesolithic inhabitants of Wadi Halfa were noted for their strong and distinctive cranial featuressuch as sloping foreheads pronounced brow ridges deep nasal roots and sturdy jawlines. Some of their traits align with those commonly seen in early Sub-Saharan populations: elongated skulls broad and low faces with forward-projecting jaws rounded eye sockets subtle nasal bridge definition and widely spaced cheekbones. Interestingly they also possessed shovel-shaped incisorsa trait more often associated with East"
TikTok Link 2025-06-20T09:17Z 35.5K followers, 77.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of Sunghir [--] Sunghir [--] is a 30000-34000 year-old man from Russia discovered about [---] km east of Moscow. The burial site of Sunghir is widely regarded as one of the most extraordinary discoveries from the Upper Paleolithic. The adult male was interred in what is designated Grave [--] while Grave [--] held the remains of two adolescent children placed head-to-head alongside an adult femur filled with red ochre. All three individuals were buried with lavish grave goods including ivory-beaded jewelry intricately decorated clothing and spears. Over [-----] beads were discovered - an"
TikTok Link 2025-06-25T13:40Z 35.6K followers, 97.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old man from the Koban culture in Ossetia The Koban culture was a Kartvelian Colchian culture associated expansion into the North Caucasus where it both influenced and was influenced by the peoples of the Post-Dolmen Horizon precursors to the Northwest Caucasian-speaking Proto-Maeotian culture and the Kayakent-Khorochoi culture which was likely proto-Nakh. The clothing is based on authentic archaeological finds scholarly research and analyses of undisturbed burial complexes from the classical period of the Koban culture (30002700 years ago) as showcased on"
TikTok Link 2025-06-26T10:54Z 28.4K followers, 112.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 9000-year-old EHG from Northwestern Russia. This Eastern Hunter-Gatherer man was discovered in Popovo Arkhangelsk Oblast Russia by S.V. Oshibkina in [----]. His burial was situated on the right bank of the Kinema River. The archaeological culture resembles that of the Kunda culture. His estimated age at death was [----] years. The man's skull had a medium-large cranial length of [---] mm and a medium-small cranial width of [---] mm. His facial breadth measured [---] mm and the mandible breadth was [---] mm - both large by modern standards. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics"
TikTok Link 2025-07-01T11:39Z 34.7K followers, 76.2K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a Neolithic Iranian from Ali Kosh The Neolithic Iranians often referred to genetically as Iran_N constitute one of the foundational ancestral components of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian populations. Many individuals from this population including those from the Neolithic site of Ali Kosh display evidence of artificial cranial deformation. This was achieved through head binding during infancy producing an elongated skull shape. Another striking modification observed in the skeletal remains is the intentional removal of a tooth during life - specifically the"
TikTok Link 2025-07-05T14:51Z 28.8K followers, 858.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3000-year-old man from Gilan The people of Iron Age Gilan were pre-Iranic-speaking natives of the region sometimes referred to as the Caspians in ancient sources. Iron Age Gilan was characterized by an abundance of animal figurines a large number of gold and silver objects and weapon hoards especially swords alongside cultural influences from the Caucasus. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #anthropology #skull #iranian"
TikTok Link 2025-07-08T14:07Z 38.6K followers, 83.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old girl from the Sintashta culture This girl was buried in the Bulanovo cemetery linked to the Sintashta culture but found with Seima-Turbino artifacts. Morphologically she was an outlier - her skull clustered with Siberian populations. The Seima-Turbino network was incredibly diverse including people related to the Indo-Iranic Sintashta some with ancestry tied to ancient North Eurasians (ANE) and others genetically similar to groups like the Nganasans associated with early Uralic peoples and mixes between all these. She may have belonged to one of these"
TikTok Link 2025-07-18T14:06Z 38.6K followers, 959.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old man from Turkmenistan The BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex) was genetically the result of a blend between earlier Central Asian farming cultures and incoming groups of farmers from Iran. The so-called "priest of Gonur Depe" from a major BMAC site believed to have been a holy city had a notably large skull with a cranial length of [---] mm a medium-large cranial width of [---] mm and a cheek breadth of [---] mm. The reconstruction was carried out in collaboration with anthropologist Alexey Nechvaloda. #phenotype #ancientdna #anthropology #skull"
TikTok Link 2025-07-27T15:56Z 38.4K followers, 85.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old Maeotian man This man buried in Myskhako in the Northwest Caucasus (modern-day Krasnodar) was a Maeotian. The Maeotians were an antiquity people that are considered direct ancestors of the modern Circassians. Their culture developed from the Proto-Maeotian culture of the Early Iron Age which was ancestral to all Northwest Caucasian peoples. The Maeotians were heavily influenced by Iranic steppe nomads such as the Cimmerians and Scythians and by the later Sauromatians and Sarmatians. The man had a medium cranial length of [---] mm a small cranial width of"
TikTok Link 2025-08-03T18:21Z 30.3K followers, 63.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Celt from Slovakia The La Tne culture developed from the earlier Hallstatt culture and lasted from about the 5th century BC to the 1st century AD. It was one of the most important Celtic cultures of the Iron Age known for its metalwork weapons and decorative art as well as for influencing large parts of Europe. This man lived during that period in the area of present-day Slovakia. He was likely part of the Boii a Celtic tribe whose lands covered parts of Slovakia Bohemia Austria and Hungary. The Boii built fortified hilltop settlements (oppida) such as the one in"
TikTok Link 2025-08-14T11:38Z 31.6K followers, 169.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old Sintashta woman The Sintashta culture which emerged during the Middle Bronze Age played a key role in the development and spread of the Indo-Iranian languages. This reconstruction is based on [----] excavations at Stepnoye (Burial [--] Skeleton 1) in Chelyabinsk led by archaeologist Natalia Batanina in collaboration with anthropologist Alexey Nechvaloda. #phenotype #ancientdna #anthropology #skull #sintashta"
TikTok Link 2025-08-22T10:47Z 38.6K followers, 102.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5750-year-old man from Georgia The man found in Chiatura near the famous Darkveti and Kotias Klde sites belonged to the Kura-Araxes culture. The Kura-Araxes culture was largely an East Caucasian phenomenon that replaced the preceding Sioni culture and is characterized by increased CHG ancestry. The westernmost extent of the Kura-Araxes is in Upper Imereti where this individual was discovered. The Imeretian Kura-Araxes subset differed from other Kura-Araxes groups. Most notably the Imeretian Kura-Araxans particularly those from Sachkhere a site near Chiatura were"
TikTok Link 2025-08-24T09:01Z 38.5K followers, 63.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3300-year-old man from Armenia Buried in a stone cyst near Lake Sevan the man was a late descendant of the Trialeti-Vanadzor culture. This Middle Bronze Age culture encompassed much of Eastern Transcaucasia. It emerged from the preceding Kura-Araxes culture with an intrusion of Steppe elements that likely entered via the Caspian route through Dagestan bringing the Armenic languages into the Caucasus. The Steppe influence within the Trialeti-Vanadzor culture is reflected in traits of the Catacomb and Novotitarovskaya cultures - the latter being a Maykop-influenced"
TikTok Link 2025-08-27T09:11Z 33.8K followers, 88.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 6450-year-old man from Tunisia He was found at the An Meterchem site located about forty kilometers north of Feriana very close to the Algerian border and was associated with the late Capsian culture. He had been adorned with a net and a loincloth made or decorated with hundreds of discs cut from ostrich eggshells. The man stood approximately [---] cm tall. His skull is dolichocephalic with a slightly pentagonoid high and narrow vault. The face is long and narrow with a prominent chin and robust mandible. His cranial capacity was above average at [----] cm."
TikTok Link 2025-08-31T08:57Z 27.8K followers, 47.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4900-year-old Yamnaya man This man about [----] years old was laid to rest in a kurgan on his right side in a slightly contracted position his head turned east. His arms lay along his body with the hands pressed between his legs. Before burial his body had been tightly wrapped placed on bedding of woven plant fibers and covered with mats of bark and reeds. His head rested on a clay pillow while his face remained uncovered. The burial was richly adorned with ritual elements. Sheets of pale bark were laid over him and on his chest was placed an appliqu in the form of a"
TikTok Link 2025-09-21T11:31Z 38.3K followers, 103.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old man from Ukraine The Usatovo culture a group possibly related to the Anatolian Indo-Europeans emerged in the northwest Black Sea region primarily in present-day Ukraine. It was characterized by a genetic and cultural mix of Steppe Eneolithic populations Caucasus groups and local Early European Farmers. Notable features include unique burial practices and artifacts such as Maykop-style copper daggers. Their Y-DNA lineages were diverse reflecting their mixed origins: I2 J1 R1a R1b G2a2 and E1b. #ancientdna #phenotype #anthropology #indoeuropean"
TikTok Link 2025-09-30T10:01Z 36.7K followers, 56.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2300-year-old Scythian outlier She belonged to the Pazyryk culture and was buried in a kurgan at Berel Altai Kazakhstan. This woman differed from others in the cemetery by her East Eurasian morphology. Given the rich grave goods in kurgan [--] anthropologists and archaeologists suggest that she was of foreign origin incorporated into the Pazyryk elite. Similar individuals with such features are found in both common and elite burials such as at the Ak-Alakha-3 cemetery. Both her skeleton and that of a man from the same kurgan show post-mortem trepanations. The male"
TikTok Link 2025-10-02T17:38Z 29.1K followers, 294K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 300-year-old Ingush He was buried in a crypt with a pyramid-shaped roof in the settlement of Lezhg Armkhi Ingushetia. The Ingush of Lezhg belong to the teip Loshkhoy which was likely also his teip. The Ingush are a Nakh people related to the Chechens. Autosomally modern Ingush fall on a genetic cline between Chechens and Ossetians corresponding to their geographical position. The man exhibited typical features of the Caucasionic anthropological type except for his cephalic index which was [--]. #ancientdna #phenotype #caucasus #ingushetia"
TikTok Link 2025-10-10T14:07Z 30.6K followers, 34K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 25000-year-old Gravettian The man whose remains were found in France comes from one of the more famous Upper Paleolithic sites Grotte des Enfants. This site yielded several human remains among which were two children known in anthropological literature for traits reminiscent of sub-Saharan morphology. Interestingly a nearby site Grimaldi also produced children with similar sub-Saharan features. Other individuals at Grotte des Enfants include a Cro-Magnontype woman and a mature Cro-Magnontype man the latter being the individual showcased here. His morphology is"
TikTok Link 2025-10-17T12:47Z 38.6K followers, 102.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3200-year-old man from Cis-Baikal The Glazkov culture was a Baikal region culture that existed between [----] and [----] BC. It belonged to the Cisbaikal_LNBA cluster associated with Proto-Yeniseian peoples. It also represents one of the Siberian ancestral components found in Scythian genomes. The man was buried on the left bank of the Angara River. His remains date to the late phase of the Glazkov period characterized by the use of forged copper tools. The skulls show no traces of hematite and the bones possess a distinctive slightly greenish tint - a feature"
TikTok Link 2025-10-24T09:25Z 30.6K followers, 41.2K engagements
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TikTok Link 2025-10-25T21:39Z [----] followers, 207.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1200-year-old Yenisei Kyrgyz Their earliest historical mention comes from Chinese chronicles. The Book of Han mentions the lands of Jiankun/Gekun (). They were Iranic Scythian peoples associated with the Tashtyk and Tagar cultures. In the north they were conquered by and submitted to Modu Chanyu leader of the Turkic Xiongnu. Some time later another wave of Turks conquered the Gekuns. These Turks came to be known as the Yenisei Kyrgyz. Having assimilated a large portion of these Scythian populations the Yenisei Kyrgyz became a syncretic people with strong local"
TikTok Link 2025-10-29T12:18Z 38.5K followers, 92.5K engagements
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TikTok Link 2025-11-16T09:06Z [--] followers, 37.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old man from Chelyabinsk The Sintashta culture is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture associated with the spread of Proto-Indo-Iranian languages. The physical anthropology of the Sintashta population is marked by pronounced heterogeneity visible both between sites and within individual burial grounds. Even within a single kurgan we see a mosaic of cranial types including Steppe European and Uraloid variants as well as those showing Southern European characteristics of the Middle Volga region (Balanovo culture) and Central Asia (Dzharkutan Apalli"
TikTok Link 2025-11-23T10:50Z 38.6K followers, 147.7K engagements
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TikTok Link 2025-11-26T22:51Z [--] followers, 61.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4800-year-old Yamnaya from Chelyabinsk He belonged to the Ural variant of the Yamnaya culture known as the Tamarutkul type which was contemporaneous with the early Poltavka sites of the Volga region. Found in Kurgan [--] of the Alexandrovskyi site in Chelyabinsk. The kurgan approximately [--] m in diameter was almost unnoticeable on the surface. It had a ring-shaped ditch with a small gap on the north-northeast side. The mound fill consisted of humus-rich loam. A buried soil horizon and washed-in sediments were identified east of the ditch. At the center slightly to the"
TikTok Link 2025-11-30T09:47Z 38.6K followers, 136.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4600-year-old Yamnaya from Chelyabinsk She belonged to the Ural variant of the Yamnaya culture known as the Tamarutkul type which was contemporaneous with the early Poltavka sites of the Volga region and carried the mtDNA lineage T2a1a. The anthropologist Alexander Khokhlov writes (in Paleoanthropological Materials of the Beginning of the Metal Epoch of the South of the Volga Region the Cis-Ural Region and Western Kazakhstan: Yamnaya Kurgan Cultures) that the Kizilskyi skulls are dolichocranial and have a medium to broad tall face with pronounced horizontal"
TikTok Link 2025-12-01T10:06Z 31.5K followers, 1.4M engagements
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TikTok Link 2025-12-01T18:24Z 29.3K followers, 265.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5100-year-old man from Mongolia with Yamnaya-like DNA He carried Y-DNA haplogroup J1a2b and mtDNA U5a1. His maternal lineage associated with European hunter-gatherers was widespread among Indo-Europeans. His paternal lineage J1a2b has been previously detected in the Khvalynsk culture; a downstream of this haplogroup also dominates the Y-DNA of the Kura-Araxes culture possibly suggesting a dispersal of J1a2b from the Caucasus into the Steppe where a related branch persisted and became the main haplogroup of the Kura-Araxes culture. The man belonging to the"
TikTok Link 2025-12-03T09:08Z 38.6K followers, 75K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2700-year-old Scythian/Saka from the Sokolovka site in Kazakhstan The Scythians also known as the Saka were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Minusinsk Altai Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. The male Scythian/Saka skulls of Kazakhstan are characterized by medium longitudinal and transverse diameters giving a cranial index of [----] which lies at the lower boundary of brachycrany. The skull height is low (131.6 mm) and the forehead is relatively wide (99.6 mm) and somewhat sloping with a more pronounced than average glabella and superciliary arches."
TikTok Link 2025-12-04T09:37Z 34K followers, 112.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 10000-year-old man from Iran Found at Ganj Dareh Tepe a Neolithic site with some of the earliest evidence of goat domestication in the world. The individuals from Ganj Dareh belong to the Iran_N genetic cluster and most carry Y-DNA haplogroup R2 which is associated with the dispersal of Ancient North Eurasian ancestry. This young adult was described by anthropologist Peter Lambert as follows: This individual is the third of the sarcophagus burial group and is complete except for several vertebrae and portions of the skull and pelvis. The mandible and both maxillae"
TikTok Link 2025-12-09T09:51Z 36K followers, 191.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3750-year-old acromegalic Aryan smith from Chelyabinsk He belonged to the proto-Indo-Iranian Sintashta culture which traces its origins farther to the west in Europe. In the late 1970s archaeologists discovered a fortified settlement of the Sintashta people in the Troitsk district of the Chelyabinsk region which was named Chernorechye-III. A few years later not far from it researchers also identified the ancient cemetery of Krivoe Ozero where its inhabitants may have been buried. In the third grave of barrow number ten archaeologists found the skeleton of an adult"
TikTok Link 2025-12-10T15:27Z 38.6K followers, 3.1M engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7000-year-old man from Ukraine Found in a paired burial at the Vovnigi site associated with the Dnieper-Donets culture. He had a cranial length of [---] mm a cranial width of [---] mm and a basion-bregma height of [---] mm - above average by modern standards but average for DnieperDonets populations. Genetically this population was a mixture of WHG ANE and a bit of AHG and CHG. Morphologically this individual exemplifies one of the anthropological peculiarities observed in some Dnieper-Donets cranial series namely some facial flatness and a consequent morphological pull"
TikTok Link 2025-12-14T11:10Z 34.9K followers, 52.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4300-year-old child from the Volga belonging to the genetically Yamnaya-like Catacomb culture. In the summer of [----] an archaeological expedition of the Kuibyshev (Samara) State Pedagogical Institute investigated Kurgans of the burial ground near the village of Politotdelskoye (Kuzmina 1990) a site comprising kurgans from different chronological periods. One of the Kurgans dubbed Kurgan [--] contained an undercut grave (number 6). The oval entrance pit was oriented northeastsouthwest and measured [----] m in length and [----] m in width. In the burial pit lay the skeleton"
TikTok Link 2025-12-15T13:49Z 38.6K followers, 509.2K engagements
"Now #Yemen owned coffee shops are signs of a take over in #Texas #USA #coffee #Islam BREAKING NEWS YEMENI COFFEE SHOPS ARE SIGNS OF A TAKEOVER BREAKING NEWS YEMENI COFFEE SHOPS ARE SIGNS OF A TAKEOVER"
TikTok Link 2025-12-19T17:17Z 19.9K followers, 40.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an 8151-year-old man from the Northwest Caucasus The man was genetically a pure EHG with Y-DNA R1a2a and mtDNA U4b1a. The poorly preserved skull was very small and described as gracile by anthropologists but it was notable for a relatively massive brow ridge. This led some researchers to speculate that he might represent a Neanderthal hybrid and the specimen was initially dated to the Upper Paleolithic. However genetic and radiocarbon dating demonstrated that he was fully Homo sapiens and belonged to the Mesolithic period. Pigmentation results indicate that he had"
TikTok Link 2025-12-30T09:54Z 38.6K followers, 53.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2700-year-old Scythian/Saka from the Karasai kurgan in Central Kazakhstan The Scythians also known as the Saka were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Minusinsk Altai Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. The male Scythian/Saka skulls of Kazakhstan are characterized by medium longitudinal and transverse diameters giving a cranial index of [----] which lies at the lower boundary of brachycrany. The skull height is low (131.6 mm) and the forehead is relatively wide (99.6 mm) and somewhat sloping with a more pronounced than average glabella and superciliary"
TikTok Link 2026-01-02T12:09Z 38.6K followers, 271.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1700-year-old Sarmatian from the Don Discovered near Yesaulovsky Aksay in Russia buried in a kurgan he was a Late Sarmatian man aged [----] during his lifetime. Sarmatians were an Iranic nomadic people formed through the mixture of the Iron Age Volga-Ural population (a mix of the Srubnaya-Alakul culture and Altai Scythians) and the Iron Age Aral Steppe population (a mix of Altai Scythians Srubnaya-Alakul and Yaz culture-like groups) with the Massagetae representing descendants of this Iron Age Aral Steppe population. The Sarmatians established themselves on the"
TikTok Link 2025-09-12T09:25Z 41.1K followers, 53.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1700-year-old Hun from Tuva The Kokel cemetery in Tuva is divided into two parts: Ulug-Khem (Xiongnu period) and Kokel (post-Xiongnu up to the 4th century AD). The Ulug-Khem phase represents core Xiongnu migrants who swarmed into Tuva and replaced the local Saka culture while the Kokel culture represents a post-Xiongnu Hunnic population to which this man belonged. The people of the Kokel culture had a custom of burying their dead in larch log tombs. According to Alekseev and Gokhman (1984) paleoanthropological materials from burials in such tombs dating to the last"
TikTok Link 2025-10-07T13:53Z 41.1K followers, 113K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 12580-year-old American woman Her remains were found in a quarry near Buhl Idaho United States in January [----]. The Buhl skull exhibited a suite of craniofacial features that fall within the range of Native American or East Asian populations. Buhl showed pronounced dental wear despite being no more than [--] years of age. The extent of enamel loss and cupping likely resulted from consuming well-processed food containing fine sand or grit probably introduced during food preparation or preservation. Her dentition also exhibited linear enamel hypoplasia on the right"
TikTok Link 2025-10-16T18:23Z 41.1K followers, 172.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3000-year-old man from Ossetia The Koban culture emerged by the end of the Bronze Age during a period of major Kartvelian expansion throughout the Caucasus. At this time the Kartvelians experienced significant population growth and technological progress which enabled their expansion into Shida Kartli and the North Caucasus. On the basis of this expansion the Koban culture was formed bringing forth advanced metallurgy and the distinctive Kobanian axes structurally very similar to the Colchian axes characteristic of the Colchian culture. Over time the Koban culture"
TikTok Link 2025-10-19T10:45Z 41.1K followers, 90.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old man from Armenia According to Assyrian sources from the 9th8th centuries BC the state of Urartu gradually formed on the Armenian Highlands. Early texts mention the lands of Uruatri a tribal confederation resisting Assyrian expansion and linked to the Hurrians and Subarians. Urartu was a vast but diverse state that united many peoples by force; the Urartians themselves formed only the ruling elite. The Kingdom of Van arose from a union of tribes. In annexed lands local rulers often remained in power under Urartian governors. Despite a well-organized"
TikTok Link 2025-10-25T12:50Z 41.1K followers, 60.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7660-year-old EHG from Lebyazhinka This Eastern Hunter-Gatherer individual was found in the Samara region. His Y-DNA was R1b-P297 and his mtDNA U5a1d. Pigmentation analysis indicates that he carried genes for light skin light hair and blue eyes. His cranial measurements include a medium-large cranial length of [---] mm a medium-small cranial width of [---] mm and a large cheek width of [---] mm. The idea of a distinct Sub-Ural population stratum emerging in deep antiquity was developed on the basis of Early Neolithic skulls recovered from burials near the villages of"
TikTok Link 2025-12-06T08:49Z 41.1K followers, 74.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old man from Samara He carried Y-DNA haplogroup R1b-V1636 and mtDNA U5a1b. His maternal lineage is associated with European Hunter-Gatherers and was widespread among Indo-European populations. His paternal lineage R1b-V1636 together with I2-L699 and several Q and J lineages formed part of the original Proto-Indo-European haplogroups of the Sredny Stog and Steppe Eneolithic populations. These lineages became extremely rare by the Bronze Age and were largely replaced during the emergence of the Yamnaya and Corded Ware cultures which were dominated by Y-DNA"
TikTok Link 2025-12-24T17:35Z 41.1K followers, 112.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2600-year-old Massagete from the Aral Sea region of Uygarak Kazakhstan The Massagetae were an Iranic-speaking people related to the Scythians/Saka. They are also known as the Sak tigraxaud meaning Saka who wear pointed hats - a reference to the Phrygian-style cap worn by the Scythians which among the Sak tigraxaud took on a very tall and sharply pointed form. The Massagetae are best known for their queen Tomyris and her defeat of Cyrus the Great the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Anthropological studies of the early Saka period in the Aral Sea region link"
TikTok Link 2026-01-11T10:00Z 41.1K followers, 54.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5500-year-old man from Middle Irtysh Kazakhstan Based on the era and geographical proximity it is likely that this individual belonged to the ANE-rich West Siberian Hunter-Gatherer/WSHG genetic cluster. The remains come from the destroyed Neolithic burial ground of Zhelezinka. The incomplete cranium was first studied by V. V. Ginzburg and later re-examined by Solodovnikov et al. (2019). Although initially identified as female reassessment using sexual dimorphism criteria of ancient Northern Eurasia determined the individual to be male. The skull is characterized by"
TikTok Link 2026-01-13T13:33Z 41.1K followers, 30.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7000-year-old Neolithic farmer from Maovice Czech Republic The individual belonged to the Linear Pottery culture (LBK). The Linear Pottery people were an Early Neolithic farming population of Europe genetically associated primarily with the Anatolian Barcn_N cluster with little additional WHG ancestry. She was aged 15-17. The forehead was high and arched; the superciliary ridges were indistinct with the glabella indicated. The nose was high and the orbits were medium-sized. Cribra orbitalia was present in the right orbit; the left orbit was damaged. The mandible was"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T12:16Z 41.1K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old possibly Tocharian woman from Xinjiang China The womans remains come from a cemetery located in the suburbs of the city of Loulan dating to a period slightly before the widespread adoption of Buddhism among the people of Loulan. The population of Loulan during the historical period was multi-ethnic with the primary population being Tocharian. The Tocharians were an Indo-European people who once inhabited what is now Xinjiang. They are likely the descendants of Afanasievo-derived populations that settled in and near the Xinjiang region. By around [---] BC"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T10:22Z 41.1K followers, 103.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old likely Tocharian man from Xinjiang China The mans remains come from a cemetery located in the suburbs of the city of Loulan dating to a period slightly before the widespread adoption of Buddhism among the people of Loulan. The population of Loulan during the historical period was multi-ethnic with the primary population being Tocharian. The Tocharians were an Indo-European people who once inhabited what is now Xinjiang. They are likely the descendants of Afanasievo-derived populations that settled in and near the Xinjiang region. By around [---] BC"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T10:26Z 41.1K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5500-year-old man buried in a great Maikop culture kurgan at Zamankul Ossetia In the ancient history of the Caucasus the Maikop culture or the Maikop-Novosvobodnaya community occupies a special place. It arose during a period when the giant pyramids of the Egyptian pharaohs had not yet been built and city-states had not yet formed in Sumer. One of the most striking elements of Maikop burial practice was the construction of large kurgans. The Maikop kurgan and the kurgans near the stanitsa Novosvobodnaya which reached heights of up to [--] meters truly amazed"
TikTok Link 2026-02-08T10:28Z 41.1K followers, 27.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5200-year-old woman from Kazakhstan Kumsay in northwest Kazakhstan is renowned for its numerous kurgans some of which were built by a distinctive group often linked with the Indo-European Yamnaya culture. However craniometric and genetic studies classify them as a separate cluster. Like the Steppe Maykop culture the Kumsay Early Bronze Age culture descends from two significant ancestral groups the Eneolithic Steppe and West Siberian Hunter-Gatherer populations with the latter primarily derived from Ancient North Eurasians. This woman was buried in the same kurgan as"
TikTok Link 2025-07-15T17:09Z 41.1K followers, 123.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3750-year-old man from Uzbekistan The people of the Tazabagyab culture specifically from the Kokcha site in Khwarazm were of Andronovo descent with some showing admixture with the local primarily Kelteminar-related population. The Indo-Iranic Andronovo culture relative of the Indo-Iranic Sintashta culture continued Indo-Iranian traditions and played a pivotal role in the spread of Iranian and Indic languages including their expansion into Iran and India through successive cultures. Male skulls from Kokcha III are dolichocranic (74.4) with a medium-large cranial"
TikTok Link 2025-09-22T10:54Z 41.1K followers, 256.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3600-year-old Vietnamese man He was recovered from the Man Bac site in Ninh Binh Province northern Vietnam. The cranial series from Neolithic Man Bac generally cluster with early Metal Age Vietnamese (such as Dong Son) and with Neolithic to early historic samples from southern China indicating affinities with more recent East Asian populations. This individual however was an outlier. Unlike the others his cranial morphology clustered with older prehistoric Vietnamese samples - Hoabinhian Bac Son and Da But - as well as with Australo-Melanesian and Jomon groups."
TikTok Link 2025-10-14T10:16Z 41.1K followers, 407K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2600-year-old Urartian noblewoman from Van The Urartians were a major regional power during the Iron Age. The territory of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu encompassed parts of present-day Turkey Iran Iraq and Armenia. They were closely related to the Hurrians and spoke a language of the same family. Genetically they were predominantly of Upper Mesopotamian descent with some admixture from neighboring Proto-Armenian populations. The Urartians were a sophisticated people renowned for their craftsmanship military skill and durable fortifications that have withstood the"
TikTok Link 2025-10-20T10:24Z 41.1K followers, 98.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2600-year-old man from Georgia During the Late Bronze Age burials in Samtavro Mtskheta were typically contracted (men placed on the right side women on the left) with heads oriented eastward. Graves were pit-shaped often filled with cobblestones and sometimes covered with stone slabs. Archaeologists have also documented cenotaphs funerary feasts and animal sacrifices. Grave goods could include up to twelve ceramic vessels bronze weapons and ornaments antimony pendants and maces carved from deer antler. Then In the Early Iron Age KobanColchian types of bronze fibulae"
TikTok Link 2025-11-04T14:05Z 41.1K followers, 82.1K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 4000-year-old woman from Xinjiang belonging to the Gumugou culture. The Early Middle Bronze Age people of the Tarim Basin were about 80% Ancient North Eurasian with the rest being East Eurasian. Populations today with high ANE ancestry include West Siberians Native Americans Finno-Ugric peoples Dagestanis Pamiris and some Dardic and Haryanvi groups. These people lived in harsh isolated conditions often resorting to hunting vultures badgers snakes and lizards. Isolation and environmental stress led to stunted height - average male [---] cm female [---] cm. Many remains"
TikTok Link 2025-11-19T15:19Z 41.1K followers, 103.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 43000-year-old woman from the Czech Republic. Her remains represent an early phase of a culture such as the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP). The IUP is recognized as one of the earliest modern human cultures in Europe. The Zlaty kun individual is notable not only as one of the oldest anatomically modern humans to have her genome successfully sequenced but also because her DNA represents a lineage that is basal to and predates the later genetic split between East and West Eurasian populations. Genetically similar populations have been found in Ranis Germany. Later"
TikTok Link 2026-01-03T09:44Z 41.1K followers, 464.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya man from Samara This individual belonged to the Yamnaya culture and carried an atypical Y-DNA lineage. Unlike the majority of Yamnaya males who are associated with R1b-M269 Z2103 he belonged to R1b-P297 Y13200. Related Y-DNA lineages have previously been identified at Ekaterinovskiy Mys a population largely of EHG ancestry. His mtDNA belonged to haplogroup T2a1b (Khokhlov et al. 2024). The Leshchevskiy I site was located near Lake Leshchevo an oxbow lake formed from an ancient channel of the Samara River. The site was situated on the edge of"
TikTok Link 2026-01-22T14:29Z 41.1K followers, 52.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya man The individual (Lower Orlyanka I 1/5) was buried beneath the central mound of a kurgan on the left bank of the Sok River Samara. The excavation was conducted in [----] under the direction of P. F. Kuznetsov and A. A. Khokhlov. The man was approximately [----] years old at the time of death. The burial consisted of a skeleton placed in a contracted position on the back with the skull oriented north-north-east. The hands were positioned over the lumbar-pelvic region. The entire skeleton was heavily covered with ochre. No grave goods were present."
TikTok Link 2026-01-26T10:00Z 41.1K followers, 50.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4500-year-old Yamnaya-Catacomb man from Odesa region Ukraine Based on the analyses of the anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov this individual resembles a more massive North Caucasian and possibly based on anthropological similarity is linked to the North Caucasus. Not far from the Odesa region In Moldova Maikop and Maikop-admixed individuals have been found with one carrying J2b2b2 Y-DNA (I17973) and a pure Yamnaya individual (I10206) carrying J2b2a1 Y-DNA likewise possibly having a distant Maikop or Maikop-related ancestor. The anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov (1955)"
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T13:02Z 41.1K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Scythian suffering gigantism ancestralwhispers.org This man buried in an Iron Age site located near the village of Edirey in Kazakhstan was likely afflicted by a hormonal disorder which resulted in his massive body height estimated to be between 200-215cm and an oversized skull. He was buried with grave goods including a small knife several arrowheads and a large bronze mirror. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #huntergathererskull #scythian #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-15T09:48Z 39.2K followers, 520.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3500-year-old Aryan Indo-Iranian Srubnaya culture man ancestralwhispers.org The Srubnaya culture was a group of nomadic pastoralists of Indo-Iranian origin directly descended from the proto-Indo-Iranic Sintashta culture. The individuals remains were found in Borili District West Kazakhstan. The individual was a male aged [----] years. A depressed compression fracture was observed on the left parietal bone measuring [----] mm on the inner surface and 28.529.5 mm on the outer surface. There were no signs of healing. A second injurya perforating fracture approximately 41"
TikTok Link 2025-05-19T07:50Z 39.2K followers, 233.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2300-year-old Ancient Israelite from Ein Gedi ancestralwhispers.org In [---] BC Ein Gedi was a small settlement on the western shore of the Dead Sea. It served as an oasis with fertile land and freshwater springs. It had cultural and religious significance as evidenced by mentions in historical texts like the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The man had a medium-small cranial length of [---] mm medium cranial width of [---] mm and a medium-large facial width of [---] mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #skull #huntergathererskull #farmerskull"
TikTok Link 2025-05-21T07:59Z 39.2K followers, 337.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 9000-year-old WHG from Germany ancestralwhispers.org This woman's ancient grave was discovered during sewer works in [----] and amazed researchers with its rich contents. Her skeleton was found in a squatting position with infant bones placed between her thighs all covered in red ochre. The grave contained deer aurochs and boar teeth ornaments stone tools flint microliths in a crane bone container bone and antler objects turtle shell fragments and mollusk shells. It remains one of the richest Mesolithic burials in Germany. The woman aged [----] and [---] cm tall had"
TikTok Link 2025-05-24T08:14Z 39.8K followers, 928.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a [-----] year-old Eastern Hunter Gatherer ancestralwhispers.org She was found at the PaleolithicMesolithic transition site uncovered on Mayak Hill near Sidelkino in the Samara Region. The remains are not attributed to any specific archaeological culture. One well-preserved skeleton initially identified as female features a large long-headed skull with a moderately projecting face. Notable characteristics include a narrow forehead low fronto-malar index flat naso-malar area sharp zygomaxillary profile slight alveolar prognathism and small moderately protruding nasal"
TikTok Link 2025-06-11T15:12Z 39.1K followers, 103.9K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a Mesolithic Upper Imeretian Hunter-Gatherer ancestralwhispers.org This reconstruction is based on a composite of cranial material from the Darkveti Eneolithic Berezhnovka Eneolithic and Dolmen Bronze Age cultures (all CHG-rich populations) as no intact CHG crania have been uncovered to date. These skulls are notable for their large sizes a trait possibly inherited from their CHG ancestors who were likely dominated by the Paleoeuropid phenotype. This phenotype shares certain similarities with the modern Caucasionic type. The Darkveti Eneolithic skull (also referred to"
TikTok Link 2025-06-12T11:54Z 39.2K followers, 125.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2500-year-old Sarmatian woman This woman was buried in one of the Filippovka kurgans - a group of [--] burial mounds near the village of Filippovka in the Ileksky District of Russias Orenburg region. Dating to 2500-2400 years ago these mounds belong to the Sarmatian culture with two designated as royal. Her burial however was located in a non-royal kurgan within the same complex. She was interred wearing a necklace which is depicted in the reconstruction. Anthropological analysis identifies her as belonging to the Eastern Europoid type- common across the Eurasian"
TikTok Link 2025-07-04T12:53Z 39.2K followers, 94.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1500-year-old man from Azerbaijan The man was buried in the Kukhuroba necropolis in the Qusar district of Northeast Azerbaijan. The burial likely belonged to a Hunnic migrant and contained grave goods such as a ceramic jug and an iron knife or dagger. His skull exhibited a combined type of cranial deformation (circular and fronto-occipital) and he was around [--] years old with mixed WestEast Eurasian features. He had a small cranial length of [-----] mm) narrow cranial width of [---] mm and very large cranial height of [---] mm (the increased height being a result of"
TikTok Link 2025-07-09T07:52Z 39.2K followers, 127.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3780-year-old Iranic Discovered in the Nepljuevski kurgan located in the Southern Trans-Ural region this individual is attributed to the Iranic Srubnaya-Alakul culture. Approximately [--] years old at the time of his death genetic analysis suggests he had ancestry from both Srubnaya and the Catacomb culture. Pigmentation analysis showed that the man had brown eyes light brown hair and a medium skin tone. His hair texture was straight to slightly wavy. The young man had a large cranial length of [---] mm a medium cranial width of [-----] mm and a medium cheekbone width of"
TikTok Link 2025-07-20T09:07Z 38.7K followers, 107.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year old Celtic woman from Austria The woman belonged to the Celtic Hallstatt culture which flourished from around [----] to [---] BC in Central Europe and is considered the early phase of the European Iron Age. This culture is known for its advanced metalwork elaborate burial rites and extensive trade networks. The Hallstatt people excelled in crafting weapons tools and jewelry and their burial mounds often contained high-status goods reflecting a complex social hierarchy. The influence of the Hallstatt culture spread widely across Europe disseminating Celtic"
TikTok Link 2025-08-01T10:28Z 39.2K followers, 356.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Kenya Pastoral Neolithic man The Pastoral Neolithic period lasted from about [----] to [----] years ago. Genetically the people of this period represent a population with predominant Cushitic ancestry forming a major component of East African autosomal heritage. The skull of Nakuru IX is long low and very narrow (hyperdolichocranic) with a medium cranial length of [---] mm a very small cranial width of [---] mm and a large cheek breadth of [---] mm. The forehead is convex the occiput rounded and projecting backward and the face high and broad. The cheekbones project laterally"
TikTok Link 2025-08-21T09:43Z 39.6K followers, 340.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 10000-year-old shaman from Serbia Lepenski Vir an archaeological site in eastern Serbia was home to a population known as the Iron Gates cluster. They were primarily descended from Western Hunter-Gatherers but also showed admixture from Eastern Hunter-Gatherers and Anatolian groups. Unlike most WHG they were predominantly brown-eyed. The individual buried at the site stood approximately [---] cm tall and weighed around [--] kilograms. He was interred with crossed legs in a distinctive lotus position a characteristic feature of his culture. The people of Lepenski Vir"
TikTok Link 2025-09-09T09:45Z 39.2K followers, 65.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Neolithic farmer from Ukraine The Globular Amphora culture was a Pre-Indo-European Early European Farmer culture of Eastern Europe directly related to the Funnelbeaker culture of Northern Europe both of which stemmed from the earlier Michelsberg culture. Their economy relied on agriculture and herding. Genetically they were approximately 75% Anatolian farmer and 25% Western Hunter-Gatherer. The people of the Globular Amphora culture contributed significantly to the autosomal DNA of Europeans particularly to western Europeans. This individual had small"
TikTok Link 2025-09-23T10:04Z 39.2K followers, 293K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 32500-year-old man from Indonesia Commonly referred to as Wadjak Man his remains were found on Java and were initially identified by Dubois as a distinct species (Homo wadjakensis). Later Pramujiono in a self-published study considered the specimen a subspecies of Homo erectus. Today however the skull is classified as belonging to an early anatomically modern human. Its morphology exhibits traits shared with both proto-Australoid groups intermediate between Solo Man and modern Australo-Melanesians and East Asian populations particularly Chinese including"
TikTok Link 2025-09-27T10:43Z 39.2K followers, 77.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old-man from Iran Hasanlu is an archaeological site of an ancient city located in northwest Iran in the province of West Azerbaijan just south of Lake Urmia. The settlement was likely associated with the Mannaeans a Hurro-Urartian people with a possible Indo-European substrate related to the Armenic branch. The site is most famous for its dramatic destruction. At the end of the 9th century BC Hasanlu was sacked and burned preserving a single moment in time much like Pompeii. Buildings artifacts and even traces of the citys inhabitants were sealed beneath"
TikTok Link 2025-10-05T12:56Z 39.2K followers, 47.7K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 4000-Year-Old Man from Xinjiang The Early Middle Bronze Age people of the Tarim Basin were about 80% Ancient North Eurasian with the rest being East Eurasian. Populations today with high ANE ancestry include West Siberians Native Americans Finno-Ugric peoples Dagestanis Pamiris and some Dardic and Haryanvi groups. These people lived in harsh isolated conditions often resorting to hunting vultures badgers snakes and lizards. Isolation and environmental stress led to stunted height - average male [---] cm female [---] cm. Many remains show sand in the lungs and other"
TikTok Link 2025-10-15T10:28Z 39.2K followers, 70.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5400-year-old man from Kazakhstan The people of the Eneolithic Botai culture were about 80% ANE with the remainder being East Eurasian and a small amount of WHG ancestry introduced through EHG gene flow. Populations today with high ANE ancestry include West Siberians Native Americans Finno-Ugric peoples Dagestanis Pamiris and some Dardic and Haryanvi groups. The Botai culture emerged during the transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle which involved a wide range of game to a more sedentary way of life centered on horse meat consumption. Botai settlements"
TikTok Link 2025-10-28T15:57Z 39.2K followers, 406.7K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 2500-Year-Old Scythian from Azerbaijan The Scythians were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. By around [---] BC they had appeared in the Western Steppe. During their westward movements the Scythians and their close relatives the Cimmerians who shared a similar material culture interacted with the peoples of the Koban culture in the Caucasus learning the regions mountain passes. They subsequently expanded into the Caucasus and the Middle East where their presence was recorded by contemporary literate civilizations. In"
TikTok Link 2025-11-02T10:45Z 39.2K followers, 115K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1300-year-old North Caucasian Alan from Kislovodsk The Alans were an Iranic Sarmatian tribe who appeared in the region between the Don River and the Caspian Sea around the 1st century AD. Having taken part in the major migrations and political events of Europe a group of Alans also settled in the Caucasus where they mixed with and influenced the local populations. This individual belonged to a man over [--] years old. His cranial type was identified as Caucasoid but with elements of East Asian traits likely linked to the Huns a Turkic people who also settled in the"
TikTok Link 2025-11-14T10:36Z 39.2K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old man from Bulanovo Orenburg Bulanovo is a moundless site attributed to the Sintashta culture though it also shows elements of Abashevo burial traditions. In burials [--] (the reconstructed specimen) [--] and [--] items of the SeimaTurbino type were discovered. The Bulanovo craniological series includes four male and three female skulls along with one juvenile and two children. Its polymorphism was noted in a preliminary publication Khokhlov Kitov 2009d: [--]. The series comprises dolichocranic skulls (burials [--] and 6/1) mesocranic (burials 6/2 [--] 14) and"
TikTok Link 2025-11-21T09:13Z 39.2K followers, 147.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5200-year-old Caucasus Maykop man ancestralwhispers.org Maykop was an Early Bronze Age culture that thrived North Caucasus and the Caucasus Steppe. The Maykop people were renowned for their exceptional metallurgical skills rich kurgan burials and an extensive trading network that began with the Circum-Pontic metallurgical province and eventually extended to Mesopotamia and Central Asia. This culture was the first to produce swords and stringed instruments. Although their main area of influence was in North Caucasus their cultural impact extended beyond that region."
TikTok Link 2025-05-25T12:56Z 40.8K followers, 115.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 6300-year-old Indo-European chief ancestralwhispers.org This man has been discovered in an eneolithic kurgan in the Rostov region assosciated with the Sredny Stog culture. The pit had a round plan with a concave bottom and many red ochre grains were found on the floor. Unfortunately the grave was partially damaged by a bulldozer. At the bottom of the grave was the skeleton of an adult man lying on his back with knees bent and his skull pointing north-northeast. The left arm was extended and the left thigh was raised (the top of the femur had been cut off in"
TikTok Link 2025-05-28T11:05Z 40.8K followers, 145.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old man from Anatolia This individual from kiztepe located in the western Pontus region near Samsun was possibly of Hattic Kaskian or Palaic origin. He lived during a time of significant cultural and political transition linked to the city of Zalpuwa which is mentioned in Hittite texts. Zalpuwa situated in the Kaskian borderlands served as a frontier settlement during the Hittite period. The man underwent the largest known trepanation surgery in the ancient Anatolian record whether for medical or ritual purposes remains uncertain. Remarkably he survived"
TikTok Link 2025-07-22T08:51Z 40.8K followers, 85.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 6500-year-old EHG from Tatarstan EHGs or Eastern Hunter-Gatherers were a mixture of Ancient North Eurasians/ANE and Western Hunter-Gatherers/WHG. Anthropologists classify the Murzikha EHGs from Tatarstan as a blend of the ancient Sublaponoid and Subural types. All Murzikha EHG individuals belonged exclusively to haplogroup Q1a and autosomally belonged to the typical Sidelkino EHG cluster. The man had a large skull with a cranial length of [---] mm cranial width of [---] mm cheekbone width of [-----] mm and bigonial width of [---] mm. Reconstruction completed in"
TikTok Link 2025-08-06T13:23Z 40.9K followers, 93.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of Loschbour Man an 8000-year-old WHG from Luxembourg. ancestralwhispers.org The Loschbour man was a late WHG (Western Hunter-Gatherer). DNA tests show he was a man with intermediate skin color brown to black hair blue eyes and lactose-intolerant. He stood about [---] meters (5 ft [--] in) tall weighed around [----] kg (128137 lb). He lived shortly before being replaced by early farmers from Anatolia and Southwestern Europe. The man had a very large cranial length of [---] mm a small cranial width of 132mm and a large facial breadth of [---] mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics"
TikTok Link 2025-05-07T07:16Z 41.1K followers, 128.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1400-year-old Norwegian man from Bodin Merovingian period. ancestralwhispers.org The man was characterized by a broad face and a very robust mandible. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #scandinavia #norse #viking #migrationperiod #germanic #indoeuropean #farmerskull #huntergathererskull #skull #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-09T09:23Z 41.1K followers, 276.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 146000-year-old Denisovan from Harbin China. Homo Longi also known as the Harbin skull is a Middle Paleolithic fossil exhibiting a range of archaic features typical of its time. These include a massive skull measuring [---] mm in length and [---] mm in width a substantial cranial capacity of [----] cm and a prominent brow ridge that contributes significantly to its overall cranial length. Recently confirmed to belong to the Denisovan lineage Homo Longi represents a branch of archaic humans that contributed a small but notable portion of DNA to modern East Eurasian"
TikTok Link 2025-06-28T13:08Z 41.1K followers, 1M engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 3000-Year-Old Man from Saudi Arabia This individual was uncovered in Al-Ula an ancient oasis in northwestern Saudi Arabia that once lay along the incense trade route. He was buried at the site of Dadan in what is considered one of the first untouched tombs found there. #phenotype #ancientdna #anthropology #skull #arabs #semitic"
TikTok Link 2025-07-30T09:06Z 41.1K followers, 245.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a medieval man from Sweden He was buried in a churchyard cemetery in Vstergtland one of the earliest Christian heartlands of the Swedish kingdom. The region played a central role in Swedens conversion to Christianity around the year [----] and its cemeteries reflect the shift from older pagan rites to standardized Christian burial practices. #phenotype #ancientdna #anthropology #skull #huntergathererskull #scandinavian"
TikTok Link 2025-08-16T10:37Z 41.1K followers, 266.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 6000-year-old woman from France. Her remains were discovered in one of the sites famous shell middens. The acidic soil of the region should have destroyed the bones yet the oyster and clam deposits preserved them remarkably well leaving us with some of the best-preserved Mesolithic skeletons in Europe. Tviec itself is a haunting site: ten graves containing [--] individuals adults and children alike many of them showing disturbing signs of violence. This woman was one of the so-called Ladies of Tviec buried in a carefully prepared pit lined with midden debris sheltered"
TikTok Link 2025-09-07T11:38Z 41.1K followers, 112.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Neolithic man from Ukraine In [--------] M. Ya. Rudinsky excavated a large Neolithic burial ground he had previously discovered. Based on burial practices body position grave goods and the extensive use of red ochre the site closely resembles the Mariupol cemetery. As at Mariupol the burials are densely arranged in rows often with rich inventories. All skeletons were laid on their backs with arms pressed to the body and legs extended. The grave goods consist mainly of stone and bone tools; fish and animal bones were frequently found on and around the skeletons. One"
TikTok Link 2026-01-05T09:45Z 41.1K followers, 64.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 10000-year-old woman from Alborz Iran She was described by the anthropologist J. Lawrence Angel (1951) as follows: Hotu [--] and [--] were found partly supine with their heads together and positioned lower than their footless legs within the early 4th gravel layer above an underlying sandy deposit. This position suggests a casual backward fall from a higher level near the cave wall and does not rule out accidental death possibly caused by falling rock disturbed by food-gatherers. The woman (Hotu 2) was about [---] cm tall with a muscular yet slender build. Although she"
TikTok Link 2026-01-19T13:03Z 41.1K followers, 40K engagements
"Facial reconstructions of 2850-year-old Hurrians from Urmia The people of Iron Age Hasanlu were genetically a mixture of Zagrosians Upper Mesopotamians and Proto-Armenics. Hasanlu is an archaeological site of an ancient city located in northwest Iran in the province of West Azerbaijan just south of Lake Urmia. The settlement was likely associated with the Mannaeans a Hurro-Urartian people with a possible Indo-European substrate related to the Armenic branch. The Hasanlu man was laid on his back beneath a hypogeum wall head west facing south with flexed legs. He had Rich grave goods - bronze"
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T08:29Z 41.1K followers, 20.5K engagements
"Reconstruction of a 2650-year-old Scythian Saka Golden Man from Eleke Sazy Kazakhstan The Saka also known as the Scythians were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Minusinsk the Altai Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. In [----] an expedition of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve-Museum Berel began stationary archaeological investigations of kurgans in the Eleke Sazy tract on the northern slope of the Tarbagatai ridge in the territory of the East Kazakhstan Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. (Samashev Z.S. Veselovskaya E.V. Vasiliev S.V. 2019) The site lies in a closed"
TikTok Link 2026-02-12T12:00Z 41.1K followers, 157.7K engagements
"What did the Yamnaya look like #yamnaya #steppe #indoeuropean #phenotype #genetics #ancientdna #ancestry#looksmax"
TikTok Link 2025-04-29T17:44Z 41.1K followers, 114.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old late Neolithic farmer from Hungary. ancestralwhispers.org She belonged to the Baden culture which was one of the last surviving Early European Farmer (EEF) cultures and may have served as a substrate for the incoming Indo-European Bell Beaker groups. Anthropologically she was predominantly of the Atlanto-Mediterranean type with additional Alpinid influence due to her large cephalic index. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #anatolian #anatolianfarmer #neolithicfarmer #farmerskull #enf #eef #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-08T12:24Z 41.1K followers, 192.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya-like man from the Altai. ancestralwhispers.org The Afanasievo culture a branch of the Yamnaya migrated to Siberia and the Altai region becoming the ancestors of the Tocharians. The individual had a remarkably long face and a broad bizygomatic width of 140mm. However his skull length and width measuring 188mm and 140mm respectively fell within the modern European average. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #indoeuropean #yamnaya #tocharian #afanasievo #farmerskull #huntergathererskull #skull #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-10T06:24Z 41.1K followers, 488.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 19000-year-old Hunter-Gatherer from the Levant. ancestralwhispers.org Ohalo [--] was a Levantine hunter-gatherer of the Kebaran culture which is considered ancestral to the Natufians. He stood approximately [-----] cm tall and had a cranial length of [---] mm and a cranial width of [---] mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #huntergathererskull #farmerskull #natufian #iberomaurusian #iran_n #skull #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-11T12:26Z 41.1K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4400-year-old Yamnaya-like man from the Caspian Steppe ancestralwhispers.org The Poltavka culture was an eastern offshoot of the Yamnaya culture. Like its western counterpart the Catacomb culture Poltavka was genetically identical to Yamnaya. According to the anthropologist Alexander Khokhlov this man possessed a set of traits that made him morphologically Armenoid-likesuch as a flattened occiput broad cranial width and a sharply pronounced profile. His skull was very large with a cranial length of [---] mm a cranial breadth of [---] mm a medium-to-large facial breadth"
TikTok Link 2025-05-16T09:58Z 41K followers, 232.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 900-year-old Norwegian man from Heidal ancestralwhispers.org The individual had a large bizygomatic breadth of [---] mm a medium-large cranial length of [---] mm and a medium-low cranial width of [---] mm. In addition to his large bizygomatic breadthwhich exceeded his cranial widthhe also had a squared frontal bone a combination of traits common in the Upper Paleolithic despite his relatively young age. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #skull #indoeuropean #scandinavia #germanic #huntergathererskull #farmerskull #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-20T09:01Z 41.1K followers, 364.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2500-year-old Sarmatian Priestess ancestralwhispers.org The Filippovka kurgans are a complex of [--] kurgans located near the village of Filippovka in the Ileksky district of the Orenburg region Russia. These kurgans belong to the Sarmatian culture and were created between the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Within this group two kurgans are classified as "royal." This specific Sarmatian woman held the esteemed position of a priestess and was granted an exceptionally opulent burial. She was interred in a royal kurgan and her resting place was adorned with numerous golden"
TikTok Link 2025-05-22T08:26Z 41.1K followers, 108.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a [-----] year old Natufian ancestralwhispers.org The Natufians were among the earliest semi-sedentary or sedentary populations in the world. Like their predecessors the Kebarans the Natufians were known to have utilized wild grains and cereals which eventually led to their cultivation and played a role in the Agricultural Revolution. The man was robust with a large skull measuring [---] mm in cranial length [---] mm in cranial width and [---] mm in facial width. His nasal breadth was [----] mmwider than that of most of the Natufian cranial series. He also possessed slight"
TikTok Link 2025-05-31T16:10Z 41.1K followers, 359.5K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 2500-Year-Old Siberian Scythian Woman ancestralwhispers.org The reconstruction is based on remains from the Dogehe-Baary II site attributed to the Uyuk-Sagly culture (6th4th century BC) in Tuva southern Siberia. The site is located on the right bank of the Biy-Khem (Bolshoy Yenisey) River [--] km upstream from its confluence with the Kaa-Khem and [--] km north of Kyzyl. On average the female individuals at the burial had a cranial length of [---] mm cranial width of [---] mm and a cheek breadth of [---] mm. These measurements more closely with European averages than with"
TikTok Link 2025-06-05T07:56Z 41.1K followers, 1.5M engagements
"Varg Vikernes and Marie Cachet as Neanderthals ancestralwhispers.org (This was Ancestral Whispers' April Fools' joke for 2025.) Unearthed in the Grotte de la Placente in Corrze France these remains reveal unprecedented traits and customs never before seen in Neanderthal specimens. Grotte de la Placente [--] carried the derived rs12821256 and rs12913832 alleles associated with blonde hair and blue eyes. Their presence predates the previously accepted TMRCA of [-----] years challenging the consensus that these traits were exclusive to Homo sapiens. Shockingly the isotopic analysis of the Grotte de"
TikTok Link 2025-06-07T08:15Z 41.1K followers, 92.8K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 10000-Year-Old Norwegian Woman ancestralwhispers.org In the coastal waters near Sgne Norway archaeologists uncovered the remarkably well-preserved remains of a woman who lived between [----] and [----] BC. Although now submerged the area was dry land at the time part of a landscape inhabited by people of the FosnaHensbacka culture (c. [--------] BC)Western Hunter-Gatherers who had migrated north into Scandinavia and contributed to the later Motala cluster. Among the skeletons found at the site hers was the most complete. She is now known as the Sgne woman (Sgnekvinnen)"
TikTok Link 2025-06-15T13:03Z 41.1K followers, 301.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Neolithic Farmer from Greece Neolithic Greece marked the first step in the Neolithization of Europe. The transition there was a continuous and uninterrupted evolution of material culture progressing smoothly from the aceramic to the ceramic phases. The individual's skull found in Agiorgitika in Peloponnese was an outlier that belonged to the Megalithic type others from his genetic cluster mostly belonged to the Mediterranean type. He had a large cranial length of 192mm very small cranial width of 128mm and a medium bizygomatic breadth of 131mm. #phenotype"
TikTok Link 2025-06-29T11:00Z 41.1K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old woman from Turkmenistan Discovered at Gonur Depe a major site of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex and considered its capital. This individual represents an outlier within the population. Some individuals at the site show genetic evidence of ancestry related to the Indus Valley Civilization - a connection further supported by her morphological classification as Veddoid. The facial reconstruction was carried out in collaboration with anthropologist Alexey Nechvaloda. #phenotype #ancientdna #anthropology #skull #bmac #indusvalleycivilization"
TikTok Link 2025-07-19T12:01Z 41.1K followers, 812.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 260000-year-old man from South Africa The Florisbad Skull was first reconstructed and thought to belong to a primitive separate human species. Others compared it to early modern humans noting similarities to both Neanderthals and African fossils like Rhodesian Man. Early interpretations were divided with some viewing it as a Neanderthal-like type others as ancestral to Bushmen or even proto-Australian. Later research showed the skull was distinct from any living population but closely related to other African fossils. Today it is generally regarded as an early form"
TikTok Link 2025-07-25T13:50Z 41.1K followers, 115.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 28000-year-old man from France In [----] during railway construction through the Vzre Valley near the village of Les Eyzies part of a rock overhang was destroyed exposing though also partially damaging a prehistoric rock shelter now known as Cro-Magnon. As the site was being cleared numerous tools and ornaments were discovered along with the skeletal remains of five individuals. These remains included an elderly man two adult males a woman and a younger individual. The skeletons were covered by layers of sediment that had accumulated from the cave ceiling over time"
TikTok Link 2025-08-08T11:11Z 41.1K followers, 780.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1000-year-old man from Sweden This man from Gotland an island in the Baltic Sea came from one of the wealthiest and most influential centers of the Viking Age. Its inhabitants were renowned merchants and seafarers maintaining extensive trade networks that stretched from the Middle East to Western Europe. Archaeological finds from the island including silver hoards ornate weaponry and runestones. Among their distinctive cultural practices was dental filing often performed on the upper front teeth. These filings featured a variety of grooves ranging from thin to deep"
TikTok Link 2025-08-09T16:14Z 41.1K followers, 154.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old woman from Turkmenistan Discovered at Gonur Depe a major site of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex and considered its capital. This individual represents an outlier within the population. Some individuals at the site show genetic evidence of ancestry related to the Indus Valley Civilization - a connection further supported by her morphological classification as Veddoid. The facial reconstruction was carried out in collaboration with anthropologist Alexey Nechvaloda. #phenotype #ancientdna #anthropology #skull #bmac #indusvalleycivilization"
TikTok Link 2025-08-23T08:36Z 41.1K followers, 117K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7000-year-old EHG from Karelia The EHGs were genetically a mixture of ANE and WHG populations. Morphologically most EHGs belonged to what anthropologists called the "Ancienturalic type" which combined traits of both West and East Eurasians but developed independently of either. The EHGs from Karelia often exhibited a set of morphological peculiarities particularly a strong tendency toward a robust Mongoloid form. Their autosomal DNA does not however show additional recent East Eurasian autosomal admixture. The presence of the C1 mtDNA lineage among them though may"
TikTok Link 2025-09-01T13:11Z 41.1K followers, 62.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4500-year-old Yamnaya-like man from Ukraine The Catacomb culture represents a clear and uninterrupted continuation of the Yamnaya culture showing nearly complete genetic and Y-DNA continuity. The Catacomb people developed a distinctive type of two-wheeled wagon with holes carved into the wheels to reduce weight and an upward-curved pole for attachment to animals. These features strongly suggest the use of horses rather than cattle making them the earliest innovators in horse-drawn transport and chariots predating similar discoveries in the Sintashta culture by"
TikTok Link 2025-09-06T10:09Z 41.1K followers, 196.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4600-year-old Yamnaya man Discovered in a single kurgan at Shumaevo Orenburg region he was between [--] and [--] years old at the time of death. His skull had a very large cranial length of [---] mm a medium-small cranial width of [---] mm and a massive disharmonious jaw with a bigonial breadth of [---] mm. Anthropologist Alexandr Khokhlov described the skull as follows: The skull is partially restored. In overall size it is rather small. The large dimensions are represented by the longitudinal and vertical diameters which define hyperdolichocrany ortho- and acrocrany. The"
TikTok Link 2025-09-08T09:19Z 41.1K followers, 81.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2600-year-old man from Georgia During the Late Bronze Age Samtavro burials in Mtskheta were typically contracted (men placed on the right side women on the left) with heads oriented eastward. Graves were pit-shaped often filled with cobblestones and sometimes covered with stone slabs. Archaeologists have also documented cenotaphs funerary feasts and animal sacrifices. Grave goods could include up to twelve ceramic vessels bronze weapons and ornaments antimony pendants and maces carved from deer antler. In the Early Iron Age KobanColchian types of bronze fibulae axes"
TikTok Link 2025-11-06T13:07Z 41.1K followers, 78.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of Khwit Sabekia (18841954) The so-called Afro-Abkhazians were African slaves who either ended up in Abkhazia after an Ottoman slave ship wrecked in the area or were purchased by a local lord in the 17th or 18th centuries. One such person was Zana (a name given to her by locals) the mother of Khwit. Many legends surround Zanas appearance. Locals claimed she was two meters tall covered in thick hair and had been found in the forests of highland Abkhazia by a nobleman - rumors that fueled stories of her being an almas or a yeti. She was reportedly passed from one lord to"
TikTok Link 2025-11-22T10:22Z 41.1K followers, 57.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2600-year-old man from Georgia Mtskheta The history of Bronze Age East Georgia is marked by several major cultural developments accompanied by shifts in population. In the Early Bronze Age (from ca. [----] BC) East Georgia was dominated by the KuraAraxes culture whose genetic profile is associated with proto-NakhDagestanians. Around [----] BC a new kurgan-building tradition emerged. This practice had already existed a few centuries earlier within a peripheral subgroup of the KuraAraxes culture in Imereti. Its influence spread into the North Caucasus and contributed to"
TikTok Link 2025-11-26T11:05Z 41.1K followers, 76.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 9000-year-old WHG from Yorkshire During the Mesolithic Western Europe was inhabited by a population known as Western Hunter-Gatherers/WHG. This genetic cluster first appears toward the end of the Upper Paleolithic replacing earlier groups such as the Gravettians Solutreans and Magdalenians - populations with whom the WHG shared both close genetic affinity and likely descent. One of the sites inhabited by WHG groups during the Mesolithic was Star Carr in North Yorkshire England dating to around 9300-8500 BC. It is one of Britains most important prehistoric sites as"
TikTok Link 2025-12-11T16:13Z 41.1K followers, 364.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an 8500-year-old man from Karelia The hunter-gatherers of Karelia belonged to the EHG cluster - a mixture of ANE and WHG. Their Y-DNA lineages were diverse including Q J and R1a as were their mtDNA lineages. These included ANE- and WHG-associated haplogroups such as U5 U4 U2e and R1b but also C an East Eurasian mtDNA lineage. Morphologically they were equally diverse encompassing an ancient Northern European type with Cro-Magnon features an ancient Baltic European type with Cro-Magnon features and an ancient Paleo-Mngloid type with Cro-Magnon features. This specimen"
TikTok Link 2025-12-29T10:40Z 41.1K followers, 53.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer (possibly EHG) from Georgia His closest cranial affinities are with two EHG individuals as well as with a selection of Proto-Indo-Iranic Balanovo culture crania. Given his location in northwest Georgia the presence of a pure EHG individual in the northwest Caucasus (Satanay) and the observed cranial and archaeological affinities it is possible that this individual was EHG or EHG-admixed CHG. His remains were presented in Mikhail Gerasimovs [----] book as those of a Neolithic man from Georgia without any clarification regarding the precise location of"
TikTok Link 2025-12-31T09:33Z 41.1K followers, 94.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2500-year-old Scythian from Tuva Standing about [---] cm tall this individual dating to an early phase of the Scythian Uyuk-Sagly culture suffered from pituitary dwarfism. The Scythians also known as the Saka were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Minusinsk the Altai Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. The skull exhibits infantile features including hyperbrachycrany a large nasal index and very flat nasal bones. Marked glabellar relief suggests that the individual was male. The dimensions of the long bones are comparable to those of modern children"
TikTok Link 2026-01-09T09:46Z 41.1K followers, 105.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old Bell Beaker from Ireland In [----] during the construction of a car park in the backyard of McCuaigs Bar in the village of Church Bay on the Irish island of Rathlin several burials were discovered. Two stone cists containing skeletons were uncovered likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Further excavations also revealed a filled-in pit above the graves containing human bones sealed with slabs of limestone. In stone cist no. [--] this individual was found lying on his left side in a crouched position oriented north-south with the head to the north. He was a"
TikTok Link 2026-01-12T16:54Z 41.1K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction based on "A12" a 2700-year-old woman from Kurdistan A12 was buried in a rectangular tomb at the Iron Age Zagros Graveyard in Iranian Kurdistan discovered in [----] near Zagros Town. The tomb was outlined with upright stones and covered by large slabs. It contained two skeletons: an adult woman and a child with the child positioned between the adults legs. Another skull found nearby may have belonged to a later or earlier burial. The tomb of A12 was richly furnished. Grave goods included a bronze bowl and a pottery vessel likely placed near the head. Numerous beads made of"
TikTok Link 2026-01-15T14:16Z 41.1K followers, 80.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7000-year-old woman from Skateholm Skateholm is an archaeological site in southern Sweden about [--] km from Trelleborg where remains of Mesolithic hunter-gatherer dwellings have been discovered. The inhabitants relied on fishing and hunting animals such as wild boar and deer and they were already familiar with pottery. Around [----] years ago the settlement consisted of small islands within a shallow lagoon. Several centuries later rising water levels led the community to relocate. Excavations conducted between [----] and [----] revealed three settlement areas and two"
TikTok Link 2026-01-17T11:14Z 41.1K followers, 118.7K engagements
"Facial reconstructions of a 3200-year-old likely Para-Armenic man and a 2600-year-old likely Proto-Georgian/Iberian man from Samtavro in Mtskheta Georgia The Bronze Age in East Georgia marked several periods of population replacement. Starting from the Early BA East Georgia was inhabited by the people of the Kura-Araxes culture associated with Northeast Caucasian speakers. In the Middle BA following a cataclysmic environmental event people of the Catacomb culture migrated from the steppes into the eastern Caucasus mixing with the previous Kura-Araxans and playing a major role in the formation"
TikTok Link 2026-01-18T12:04Z 41.1K followers, 25.9K engagements
"Facial reconstructions of a 2500-year-old Sarmatian priestess and a Sarmatian warrior from the Filippovka kurgans in Orenburg region of Russia The first investigations of this site began in [----] conducted by the Ufa Archaeological Expedition under the direction of Anatoly Kharitonovich Pshenichnyuk. Excavations of the central burial and nearby cache pits surrounding the main grave yielded a large number of objects made from precious metals including the famous gold deer. In [----] the study of this kurgan was completed by the Cis-Ural Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian"
TikTok Link 2026-01-20T13:20Z 41.1K followers, 34.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3300-year-old likely Para-Armenic or Proto-Armenian man from Khoshbulag Azerbaijan Archaeological sites of the LBA-EIA at Khoshbulag are attributed to the Khojaly-Gadabay archaeological culture. Funerary monuments of this period include burial grounds with kurgan-type mounds stone cists and flat graves featuring both inhumation and cremation. The Khojaly-Gadabay culture is well established in the archaeological literature of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Chronologically it spans the LBA and EIA in the Caucasus region and Iron Ages I and II in northwestern Iran. In the"
TikTok Link 2026-01-21T08:57Z 41.1K followers, 35.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a likely 5500-year-old man from Chiatura Darkveti Georgia The Chiatura man is well known in anthropological literature for his massive cranial dimensions. Without soft tissue the skull first described by Alexandre Javakhishvili exhibits a massive cheek breadth of [---] mm a very large cranial width of [---] mm and a very long cranial length of [---] mm. Most notably it stands out among contemporaneous Caucasian crania for its overall size and massiveness showing a closer affinity to the Caucasionic type which is otherwise thought to have first appeared in the Caucasus"
TikTok Link 2026-01-24T10:46Z 41.1K followers, 33.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4500-year-old man from Khapuz-Depe Southern Turkmenistan The man belonged to the Namazga cultural horizon which later transitioned into the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). The anthropologists Ginzburg and Trofimova (1972) describe the cranial series from the region as follows: Male skulls from Khapuz-Depe Kara-Depe and Geoksiur are dolichocranial (CI 70.0) with very large cranial length (195.1 mm) large height (139.5 mm) and small breadth (136.1 mm). The forehead slope is moderate the supraorbital region is well developed and the facewhile average in"
TikTok Link 2026-01-25T09:57Z 41.1K followers, 42.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction based on B9a/b.27 a 2900-year-old Dinkha Tepe warrior from the Dinkha III period (Iron Age I) Iran The people of Dinkha III were likely Hurrian and closely related to the Hasanlu Iron Age cultural horizon of the Urmia region. Dinkha III burials are primarily recognized by their associated grave goods which are quite similar to those found in the Hasanlu excavations. The dead were buried in individual graves without markers; the brick tombs generally opened to the east. Men women and children were interred in the same area and apparently received the same burial rites."
TikTok Link 2026-01-28T09:41Z 41.1K followers, 53.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7000-year-old Neolithic farmer from Vedrovice Czech Republic The individual belonged to the Linear Pottery culture (LBK). The Linear Pottery people were an Early Neolithic farming population of Europe genetically associated primarily with the Anatolian Barcn_N cluster with little additional WHG ancestry. He was aged approximately [----] years. The skull shows a high flat forehead; its shape does not exclude slight rickets. The arcus superciliaris is weakly developed and the glabella is flat. The maxilla is strongly prognathic; a cyst is present in M1 while the alveoli"
TikTok Link 2026-01-29T10:21Z 41.1K followers, 48.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old man from Aigyrzhal Kyrgyzstan Genetically the two Bronze Age individuals from Aigyrzhal (Narasimhan et al. 2019) show admixture from Central Asian farmers Afanasievo-related groups and ANE-rich populations. Individual I11527 carried Y-DNA J2a1a1b2a1a1 and mtDNA HV14 while I11526 carried Y-DNA Q1b2a1a and mtDNA R6a2. The Aigyrzhal population of Naryn (22001900 BC) was described as asthenic dark-haired long-headed and narrow-faced with sharply profiled features resembling the Mediterranean type. These traits are attributed to a variant of the"
TikTok Link 2026-02-10T10:42Z 41.1K followers, 33.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old man from Xinjiang China Liushui is one of the many sites in Xinjiang that shows a very unique and peculiar population. Situated in Yutian County of the Hotan region Liushui is an Early Iron Age site belonging to a pastoral population. The site has many archaeological parallels with the Karasuk culture giving the impression that one is dealing with Scytho-Siberian peoples. However the DNA shows something more unique. One sample C1246 was mostly Central Asian with a mixture of Andronovo BMAC and native Tian Shan populations (Aigyrzhal_BA) with some South"
TikTok Link 2026-02-11T10:38Z 41.1K followers, 44K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3400-year-old woman from Ust-Erba Minusinsk Most archaeologists consider the Karasuk culture an eastern offshoot of the Andronovo horizon especially the Alakul variant whose groups likely migrated into the Minusinsk Basin from the southwest. They encountered earlier Andronovo (Fedorovo) possible Okunevo remnants and northern foragers. Karasuk populations were mainly sedentary pastoralists (cattle sheep increasing horse use) lived in semi-dugout houses and are known for distinctive bronze weapons. Their metallurgy developed from Seima-Turbino traditions via Andronovo"
TikTok Link 2026-02-16T13:26Z 41.1K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3400-year-old woman from Ust-Erba Minusinsk Most archaeologists consider the Karasuk culture an eastern offshoot of the Andronovo horizon especially the Alakul variant whose groups likely migrated into the Minusinsk Basin from the southwest. They encountered earlier Andronovo (Fedorovo) possible Okunevo remnants and northern foragers. Karasuk populations were mainly sedentary pastoralists (cattle sheep increasing horse use) lived in semi-dugout houses and are known for distinctive bronze weapons. Their metallurgy developed from Seima-Turbino traditions via Andronovo"
TikTok Link 2026-02-16T13:26Z 41.1K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Reconstruction of a 2650-year-old Scythian Saka Golden Man from Eleke Sazy Kazakhstan The Saka also known as the Scythians were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Minusinsk the Altai Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. In [----] an expedition of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve-Museum Berel began stationary archaeological investigations of kurgans in the Eleke Sazy tract on the northern slope of the Tarbagatai ridge in the territory of the East Kazakhstan Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. (Samashev Z.S. Veselovskaya E.V. Vasiliev S.V. 2019) The site lies in a closed"
TikTok Link 2026-02-12T12:00Z 41.1K followers, 157.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old man from Xinjiang China Liushui is one of the many sites in Xinjiang that shows a very unique and peculiar population. Situated in Yutian County of the Hotan region Liushui is an Early Iron Age site belonging to a pastoral population. The site has many archaeological parallels with the Karasuk culture giving the impression that one is dealing with Scytho-Siberian peoples. However the DNA shows something more unique. One sample C1246 was mostly Central Asian with a mixture of Andronovo BMAC and native Tian Shan populations (Aigyrzhal_BA) with some South"
TikTok Link 2026-02-11T10:38Z 41.1K followers, 44K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old man from Aigyrzhal Kyrgyzstan Genetically the two Bronze Age individuals from Aigyrzhal (Narasimhan et al. 2019) show admixture from Central Asian farmers Afanasievo-related groups and ANE-rich populations. Individual I11527 carried Y-DNA J2a1a1b2a1a1 and mtDNA HV14 while I11526 carried Y-DNA Q1b2a1a and mtDNA R6a2. The Aigyrzhal population of Naryn (22001900 BC) was described as asthenic dark-haired long-headed and narrow-faced with sharply profiled features resembling the Mediterranean type. These traits are attributed to a variant of the"
TikTok Link 2026-02-10T10:42Z 41.1K followers, 33.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4500-year-old Yamnaya-Catacomb man from Odesa region Ukraine Based on the analyses of the anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov this individual resembles a more massive North Caucasian and possibly based on anthropological similarity is linked to the North Caucasus. Not far from the Odesa region In Moldova Maikop and Maikop-admixed individuals have been found with one carrying J2b2b2 Y-DNA (I17973) and a pure Yamnaya individual (I10206) carrying J2b2a1 Y-DNA likewise possibly having a distant Maikop or Maikop-related ancestor. The anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov (1955)"
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T13:02Z 41.1K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Facial reconstructions of 2850-year-old Hurrians from Urmia The people of Iron Age Hasanlu were genetically a mixture of Zagrosians Upper Mesopotamians and Proto-Armenics. Hasanlu is an archaeological site of an ancient city located in northwest Iran in the province of West Azerbaijan just south of Lake Urmia. The settlement was likely associated with the Mannaeans a Hurro-Urartian people with a possible Indo-European substrate related to the Armenic branch. The Hasanlu man was laid on his back beneath a hypogeum wall head west facing south with flexed legs. He had Rich grave goods - bronze"
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T08:29Z 41.1K followers, 20.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5500-year-old man buried in a great Maikop culture kurgan at Zamankul Ossetia In the ancient history of the Caucasus the Maikop culture or the Maikop-Novosvobodnaya community occupies a special place. It arose during a period when the giant pyramids of the Egyptian pharaohs had not yet been built and city-states had not yet formed in Sumer. One of the most striking elements of Maikop burial practice was the construction of large kurgans. The Maikop kurgan and the kurgans near the stanitsa Novosvobodnaya which reached heights of up to [--] meters truly amazed"
TikTok Link 2026-02-08T10:28Z 41.1K followers, 27.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old likely Tocharian man from Xinjiang China The mans remains come from a cemetery located in the suburbs of the city of Loulan dating to a period slightly before the widespread adoption of Buddhism among the people of Loulan. The population of Loulan during the historical period was multi-ethnic with the primary population being Tocharian. The Tocharians were an Indo-European people who once inhabited what is now Xinjiang. They are likely the descendants of Afanasievo-derived populations that settled in and near the Xinjiang region. By around [---] BC"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T10:26Z 41.1K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old possibly Tocharian woman from Xinjiang China The womans remains come from a cemetery located in the suburbs of the city of Loulan dating to a period slightly before the widespread adoption of Buddhism among the people of Loulan. The population of Loulan during the historical period was multi-ethnic with the primary population being Tocharian. The Tocharians were an Indo-European people who once inhabited what is now Xinjiang. They are likely the descendants of Afanasievo-derived populations that settled in and near the Xinjiang region. By around [---] BC"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T10:22Z 41.1K followers, 103.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7000-year-old Neolithic farmer from Maovice Czech Republic The individual belonged to the Linear Pottery culture (LBK). The Linear Pottery people were an Early Neolithic farming population of Europe genetically associated primarily with the Anatolian Barcn_N cluster with little additional WHG ancestry. She was aged 15-17. The forehead was high and arched; the superciliary ridges were indistinct with the glabella indicated. The nose was high and the orbits were medium-sized. Cribra orbitalia was present in the right orbit; the left orbit was damaged. The mandible was"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T12:16Z 41.1K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7000-year-old Neolithic farmer from Vedrovice Czech Republic The individual belonged to the Linear Pottery culture (LBK). The Linear Pottery people were an Early Neolithic farming population of Europe genetically associated primarily with the Anatolian Barcn_N cluster with little additional WHG ancestry. He was aged approximately [----] years. The skull shows a high flat forehead; its shape does not exclude slight rickets. The arcus superciliaris is weakly developed and the glabella is flat. The maxilla is strongly prognathic; a cyst is present in M1 while the alveoli"
TikTok Link 2026-01-29T10:21Z 41.1K followers, 48.4K engagements
"Facial reconstruction based on B9a/b.27 a 2900-year-old Dinkha Tepe warrior from the Dinkha III period (Iron Age I) Iran The people of Dinkha III were likely Hurrian and closely related to the Hasanlu Iron Age cultural horizon of the Urmia region. Dinkha III burials are primarily recognized by their associated grave goods which are quite similar to those found in the Hasanlu excavations. The dead were buried in individual graves without markers; the brick tombs generally opened to the east. Men women and children were interred in the same area and apparently received the same burial rites."
TikTok Link 2026-01-28T09:41Z 41.1K followers, 53.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya man The individual (Lower Orlyanka I 1/5) was buried beneath the central mound of a kurgan on the left bank of the Sok River Samara. The excavation was conducted in [----] under the direction of P. F. Kuznetsov and A. A. Khokhlov. The man was approximately [----] years old at the time of death. The burial consisted of a skeleton placed in a contracted position on the back with the skull oriented north-north-east. The hands were positioned over the lumbar-pelvic region. The entire skeleton was heavily covered with ochre. No grave goods were present."
TikTok Link 2026-01-26T10:00Z 41.1K followers, 50.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4500-year-old man from Khapuz-Depe Southern Turkmenistan The man belonged to the Namazga cultural horizon which later transitioned into the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). The anthropologists Ginzburg and Trofimova (1972) describe the cranial series from the region as follows: Male skulls from Khapuz-Depe Kara-Depe and Geoksiur are dolichocranial (CI 70.0) with very large cranial length (195.1 mm) large height (139.5 mm) and small breadth (136.1 mm). The forehead slope is moderate the supraorbital region is well developed and the facewhile average in"
TikTok Link 2026-01-25T09:57Z 41.1K followers, 42.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a likely 5500-year-old man from Chiatura Darkveti Georgia The Chiatura man is well known in anthropological literature for his massive cranial dimensions. Without soft tissue the skull first described by Alexandre Javakhishvili exhibits a massive cheek breadth of [---] mm a very large cranial width of [---] mm and a very long cranial length of [---] mm. Most notably it stands out among contemporaneous Caucasian crania for its overall size and massiveness showing a closer affinity to the Caucasionic type which is otherwise thought to have first appeared in the Caucasus"
TikTok Link 2026-01-24T10:46Z 41.1K followers, 33.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5000-year-old Yamnaya man from Samara This individual belonged to the Yamnaya culture and carried an atypical Y-DNA lineage. Unlike the majority of Yamnaya males who are associated with R1b-M269 Z2103 he belonged to R1b-P297 Y13200. Related Y-DNA lineages have previously been identified at Ekaterinovskiy Mys a population largely of EHG ancestry. His mtDNA belonged to haplogroup T2a1b (Khokhlov et al. 2024). The Leshchevskiy I site was located near Lake Leshchevo an oxbow lake formed from an ancient channel of the Samara River. The site was situated on the edge of"
TikTok Link 2026-01-22T14:29Z 41.1K followers, 52.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3300-year-old likely Para-Armenic or Proto-Armenian man from Khoshbulag Azerbaijan Archaeological sites of the LBA-EIA at Khoshbulag are attributed to the Khojaly-Gadabay archaeological culture. Funerary monuments of this period include burial grounds with kurgan-type mounds stone cists and flat graves featuring both inhumation and cremation. The Khojaly-Gadabay culture is well established in the archaeological literature of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Chronologically it spans the LBA and EIA in the Caucasus region and Iron Ages I and II in northwestern Iran. In the"
TikTok Link 2026-01-21T08:57Z 41.1K followers, 35.2K engagements
"Facial reconstructions of a 2500-year-old Sarmatian priestess and a Sarmatian warrior from the Filippovka kurgans in Orenburg region of Russia The first investigations of this site began in [----] conducted by the Ufa Archaeological Expedition under the direction of Anatoly Kharitonovich Pshenichnyuk. Excavations of the central burial and nearby cache pits surrounding the main grave yielded a large number of objects made from precious metals including the famous gold deer. In [----] the study of this kurgan was completed by the Cis-Ural Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian"
TikTok Link 2026-01-20T13:20Z 41.1K followers, 34.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 10000-year-old woman from Alborz Iran She was described by the anthropologist J. Lawrence Angel (1951) as follows: Hotu [--] and [--] were found partly supine with their heads together and positioned lower than their footless legs within the early 4th gravel layer above an underlying sandy deposit. This position suggests a casual backward fall from a higher level near the cave wall and does not rule out accidental death possibly caused by falling rock disturbed by food-gatherers. The woman (Hotu 2) was about [---] cm tall with a muscular yet slender build. Although she"
TikTok Link 2026-01-19T13:03Z 41.1K followers, 40K engagements
"Facial reconstructions of a 3200-year-old likely Para-Armenic man and a 2600-year-old likely Proto-Georgian/Iberian man from Samtavro in Mtskheta Georgia The Bronze Age in East Georgia marked several periods of population replacement. Starting from the Early BA East Georgia was inhabited by the people of the Kura-Araxes culture associated with Northeast Caucasian speakers. In the Middle BA following a cataclysmic environmental event people of the Catacomb culture migrated from the steppes into the eastern Caucasus mixing with the previous Kura-Araxans and playing a major role in the formation"
TikTok Link 2026-01-18T12:04Z 41.1K followers, 25.9K engagements
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