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I said I'd do Dr. Özgür Bulut and Hidayet Taşan forensic reconstruction of Oberkassel man, but I ended up doing the LandesMuseums in Bonns recreation (at least I think that's who did this one), instead.

I've been trying to figure out why this one was so radically different from Gerasimov's reconstruction. Looking at the original skull, I think that this one's jawline may be more accurate, that the nose was somewhere in between Gerasimov's and LandesMuseums, and that Gerasimov's mouth was more accurate.

I think they made the mouth so ridiculously tiny to try and illustrate that Oberkassel man was missing most of his teeth.

Anyway, to copy and paste from the other one:
In 1914 stone quarry workers in Bonn-Oberkassel discovered two Western Hunter Gatherer's (WHG) skeletons, a man in his 40's and a woman about 25 years old. Buried with them bones from a dog, and two works of art made of bones and antlers. The combination of a double burial for humans and art and one of the oldest domestic dogs in the world, unique in Central Europe of around 14 000 years ago, makes this finding one of the most important for the late Ice Age.

The Oberkassel man was really muscular (even for WHG's) He was short for the time at 5'4" and he weighed about 158 lbs. He was probably left-handed and had a (healed) broken right forearm and a less mobile right shoulder due to a heavy fall. Due to the handicap his left arm was even stronger than that of an ordinary left-handed person. He had lost two incisors from the lower jaw, and the upper jaw had lost all teeth but 4 molars. From his early youth he and the women must have been much on the move, very mobile. He had lost quite a few teeth and suffered from an inflammation in the lower jaw.

I think cromagnon is almost the wrong term for Mr. Oberkassel as he was a Magdalenian Western Hunter Gatherer, and nowhere near as ancient, nor closely related, to chaps like Cromagnon 1.

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I said I'd do Dr. Özgür Bulut and Hidayet Taşan forensic reconstruction of Oberkassel man, but I ended up doing the LandesMuseums in Bonns recreation (at least I think that's who did this one), instead.

I've been trying to figure out why this one was so radically different from Gerasimov's reconstruction. Looking at the original skull, I think that this one's jawline may be more accurate, that the nose was somewhere in between Gerasimov's and LandesMuseums, and that Gerasimov's mouth was more accurate.

I think they made the mouth so ridiculously tiny to try and illustrate that Oberkassel man was missing most of his teeth.

Anyway, to copy and paste from the other one:
In 1914 stone quarry workers in Bonn-Oberkassel discovered two Western Hunter Gatherer's (WHG) skeletons, a man in his 40's and a woman about 25 years old. Buried with them bones from a dog, and two works of art made of bones and antlers. The combination of a double burial for humans and art and one of the oldest domestic dogs in the world, unique in Central Europe of around 14 000 years ago, makes this finding one of the most important for the late Ice Age.

The Oberkassel man was really muscular (even for WHG's) He was short for the time at 5'4" and he weighed about 158 lbs. He was probably left-handed and had a (healed) broken right forearm and a less mobile right shoulder due to a heavy fall. Due to the handicap his left arm was even stronger than that of an ordinary left-handed person. He had lost two incisors from the lower jaw, and the upper jaw had lost all teeth but 4 molars. From his early youth he and the women must have been much on the move, very mobile. He had lost quite a few teeth and suffered from an inflammation in the lower jaw.

I think cromagnon is almost the wrong term for Mr. Oberkassel as he was a Magdalenian Western Hunter Gatherer, and nowhere near as ancient, nor closely related, to chaps like Cromagnon 1.