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# ![@ancestralwhispersdotorg Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:tiktok::7449749942015919120.png) @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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"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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7538404189198634248)  2025-08-14T11:38Z 31.6K followers, 169.3K engagements


"Que bendicin 😍😍 #chepefortuna #novelas #costa #costeos #rcn"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@miguelsabid/video/7578957123686583559)  2025-12-01T18:24Z X followers, 1.4M 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7527356845162286354)  2025-07-15T17:09Z X followers, 117.6K 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 2535 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7549131442823941384)  2025-09-12T09:25Z X followers, 42K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7552865141189299463)  2025-09-22T10:54Z X followers, 232.2K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7562882080519064839)  2025-10-19T10:45Z X followers, 72.1K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7568871050931473682)  2025-11-04T14:05Z X followers, 58.9K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 19000-year-old Hunter-Gatherer from the Levant. ancestralwhispers.org Ohalo X was a Levantine hunter-gatherer of the Kebaran culture which is considered ancestral to the Natufians. He stood approximately XXXXX cm tall and had a cranial length of XXX mm and a cranial width of XXX mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #huntergathererskull #farmerskull #natufian #iberomaurusian #iran_n #skull #looksmax #looksmaxx"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7503163534440664328)  2025-05-11T12:26Z 32.1K followers, 1.6M 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7504607003059211538)  2025-05-15T09:48Z X followers, 491.8K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 2300-year-old Ancient Israelite from Ein Gedi ancestralwhispers.org In XXX 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 XXX mm medium cranial width of XXX mm and a medium-large facial width of XXX mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #skull #huntergathererskull #farmerskull"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7506805644180180242)  2025-05-21T07:59Z 32.1K followers, 324.7K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7509451121300114696)  2025-05-28T11:05Z 32.1K followers, 140.2K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 11000 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 XXX mm in cranial length XXX mm in cranial width and XXX mm in facial width. His nasal breadth was XXXX mmwider than that of most of the Natufian cranial series. He also possessed slight"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7510643033763859730)  2025-05-31T16:10Z 32.1K followers, 338.8K 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 X km upstream from its confluence with the Kaa-Khem and X km north of Kyzyl. On average the female individuals at the burial had a cranial length of XXX mm cranial width of XXX mm and a cheek breadth of XXX mm. These measurements more closely with European averages than with"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7512371039624498439)  2025-06-05T07:56Z X followers, 1.4M engagements


"Facial reconstruction of Sunghir X Sunghir X is a 30000-34000 year-old man from Russia discovered about XXX 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 X while Grave X 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 13000 beads were discovered - an"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7519881302821113095)  2025-06-25T13:40Z 32.1K followers, 96.2K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7521324553855962386)  2025-06-29T11:00Z X followers, 1.3M 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 1979. 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 5060 years. The man's skull had a medium-large cranial length of XXX mm and a medium-small cranial width of XXX mm. His facial breadth measured XXX mm and the mandible breadth was XXX mm - both large by modern standards. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7522076805520559378)  2025-07-01T11:39Z X followers, 75.1K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7524712401409674504)  2025-07-08T14:07Z X followers, 80.3K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7528761979335413010)  2025-07-19T12:01Z 32.1K followers, 778.5K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7532798864336833799)  2025-07-30T09:06Z X followers, 222.6K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year old Celtic woman from Austria The woman belonged to the Celtic Hallstatt culture which flourished from around 1200 to XXX 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7533561974634925319)  2025-08-01T10:28Z 32.1K followers, 336.8K 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 XXX mm cranial width of XXX mm cheekbone width of XXXXX mm and bigonial width of XXX mm. Reconstruction completed in"  
[TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7535462591121034503)  2025-08-06T13:23Z 32.1K followers, 86K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 28000-year-old man from France In 1868 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7536170655595777298)  2025-08-08T11:11Z 32.1K followers, 723.3K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7541697142025506066)  2025-08-23T08:36Z X followers, 108.9K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7543190567220415751)  2025-08-27T09:11Z X followers, 87.1K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7545107602284285192)  2025-09-01T13:11Z 32.1K followers, 54K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 4600-year-old Yamnaya man Discovered in a single kurgan at Shumaevo Orenburg region he was between XX and XX years old at the time of death. His skull had a very large cranial length of XXX mm a medium-small cranial width of XXX mm and a massive disharmonious jaw with a bigonial breadth of XXX 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7547645598439132434)  2025-09-08T09:19Z X followers, 72.4K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 4900-year-old Yamnaya man This man about 3540 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7552503708655865095)  2025-09-21T11:31Z X followers, 94.2K engagements


"Facial reconstruction of a 5400-year-old man from Kazakhstan The people of the Eneolithic Botai culture were about XX% 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7566302312185040135)  2025-10-28T15:57Z X followers, 138.1K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7569598198478687495)  2025-11-06T13:07Z X followers, 54.5K 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 XX 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7572528005130620168)  2025-11-14T10:36Z 32.1K followers, 898.8K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7575871361696943367)  2025-11-23T10:50Z 32.1K followers, 92.4K 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 X of the Alexandrovskyi site in Chelyabinsk. The kurgan approximately XX 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7578452877266423047)  2025-11-30T09:47Z 32.1K followers, 54.5K 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 XXXX 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7579934595697691911)  2025-12-04T09:37Z 32.1K followers, 84K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7582251163865648392)  2025-12-10T15:27Z 32.1K followers, 614.1K 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](https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestralwhispersdotorg/video/7582634218329558279)  2025-12-11T16:13Z 32.1K followers, 9687 engagements

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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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"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

"Que bendicin 😍😍 #chepefortuna #novelas #costa #costeos #rcn"
TikTok Link 2025-12-01T18:24Z X followers, 1.4M 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 X followers, 117.6K 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 2535 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 X followers, 42K 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 X followers, 232.2K 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 X followers, 72.1K 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 X followers, 58.9K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 19000-year-old Hunter-Gatherer from the Levant. ancestralwhispers.org Ohalo X was a Levantine hunter-gatherer of the Kebaran culture which is considered ancestral to the Natufians. He stood approximately XXXXX cm tall and had a cranial length of XXX mm and a cranial width of XXX mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #huntergathererskull #farmerskull #natufian #iberomaurusian #iran_n #skull #looksmax #looksmaxx"
TikTok Link 2025-05-11T12:26Z 32.1K followers, 1.6M 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 X followers, 491.8K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 2300-year-old Ancient Israelite from Ein Gedi ancestralwhispers.org In XXX 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 XXX mm medium cranial width of XXX mm and a medium-large facial width of XXX mm. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #skull #huntergathererskull #farmerskull"
TikTok Link 2025-05-21T07:59Z 32.1K followers, 324.7K 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 32.1K followers, 140.2K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 11000 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 XXX mm in cranial length XXX mm in cranial width and XXX mm in facial width. His nasal breadth was XXXX mmwider than that of most of the Natufian cranial series. He also possessed slight"
TikTok Link 2025-05-31T16:10Z 32.1K followers, 338.8K 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 X km upstream from its confluence with the Kaa-Khem and X km north of Kyzyl. On average the female individuals at the burial had a cranial length of XXX mm cranial width of XXX mm and a cheek breadth of XXX mm. These measurements more closely with European averages than with"
TikTok Link 2025-06-05T07:56Z X followers, 1.4M engagements

"Facial reconstruction of Sunghir X Sunghir X is a 30000-34000 year-old man from Russia discovered about XXX 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 X while Grave X 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 13000 beads were discovered - an"
TikTok Link 2025-06-25T13:40Z 32.1K followers, 96.2K 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 X followers, 1.3M 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 1979. 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 5060 years. The man's skull had a medium-large cranial length of XXX mm and a medium-small cranial width of XXX mm. His facial breadth measured XXX mm and the mandible breadth was XXX mm - both large by modern standards. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics"
TikTok Link 2025-07-01T11:39Z X followers, 75.1K 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 X followers, 80.3K 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 32.1K followers, 778.5K 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 X followers, 222.6K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year old Celtic woman from Austria The woman belonged to the Celtic Hallstatt culture which flourished from around 1200 to XXX 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 32.1K followers, 336.8K 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 XXX mm cranial width of XXX mm cheekbone width of XXXXX mm and bigonial width of XXX mm. Reconstruction completed in"
TikTok Link 2025-08-06T13:23Z 32.1K followers, 86K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 28000-year-old man from France In 1868 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 32.1K followers, 723.3K 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 X followers, 108.9K 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 X followers, 87.1K 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 32.1K followers, 54K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 4600-year-old Yamnaya man Discovered in a single kurgan at Shumaevo Orenburg region he was between XX and XX years old at the time of death. His skull had a very large cranial length of XXX mm a medium-small cranial width of XXX mm and a massive disharmonious jaw with a bigonial breadth of XXX 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 X followers, 72.4K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 4900-year-old Yamnaya man This man about 3540 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 X followers, 94.2K engagements

"Facial reconstruction of a 5400-year-old man from Kazakhstan The people of the Eneolithic Botai culture were about XX% 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 X followers, 138.1K 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 X followers, 54.5K 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 XX 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 32.1K followers, 898.8K 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 32.1K followers, 92.4K 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 X of the Alexandrovskyi site in Chelyabinsk. The kurgan approximately XX 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 32.1K followers, 54.5K 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 XXXX 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 32.1K followers, 84K 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 32.1K followers, 614.1K 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 32.1K followers, 9687 engagements

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