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Facial reconstructions, Anthropology, Archaeogenetics, Archaeology, Ethnography.

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Facial and hypothetical artistic reconstruction commissions are open. Visit to get a glimpse of our work and services. To delve deeper into the methodology behind our reconstructions, visit
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Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic forager from Vovnihy, Ukraine, belonging to the Dnieper-Donets culture.
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Facial reconstruction of an acromegalic Scythian from Edrey, Kazakhstan.
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Facial reconstruction of an ancient Atmoran from Saarthal, dated to the late Merethic Era.
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Facial reconstruction of a woman found in the Moesring Mountains, Solstheim, dated to the Late Merethic Era. Her well-preserved remains were found encased in a block of stalhrim. Wounds around her abdomen suggest that she was killed by a powerful thrust, possibly with a spear.
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Facial reconstruction of an Early Medieval German from Hilmes. Due to his cranial robusticity, he's sometimes incorrectly dubbed as a "Hunter-Gatherer" on the Internet.
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Map showcasing the Medieval Turkic ancestry in areas populated by Turkish people.
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Facial reconstructions of Siberian Scythians.
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Facial reconstruction of a Sumerian from Tell Fara.
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Facial reconstruction of Nazlet Khater 2, an Upper Paleolithic specimen from Egypt.
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@Jonahlobe That's incredible! The skeleton models are very iconic. Great to see recognition from someone who worked on Skyrim.
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Facial reconstructions of Sintashta and Corded Ware men.
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1) Map showcasing the Slavic Ancestry in the Balkans 2) Facial reconstruction of an Early Slav.
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Facial reconstruction of a 9th century Viking from Dublin.
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Facial reconstruction of an Irish Bell Beaker.
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Facial reconstruction of Ibn Sina, a Bukharian born in the Samanid Empire, also known as Avicenna. He was a philosopher and physician from the Islamic Golden Age, frequently regarded as the pioneer of early modern medical practices.
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Facial reconstruction of an Iron Age Armenian found in a kurgan burial near lake Sevan.
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Facial reconstruction of the early Holocene Sahar Nahar Rai man from Uttar Pradesh.
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Facial reconstruction of a big nosed Wusun from Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan, dated to 100BC-100AC.
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Iran_N was an important Eurasian genetic group. They were the first to domesticate goats, and were vital in the formation of many ancient civilizations such as Elam, Sumerians, BMAC and IVC. Neolithic Iranians also had a custom of artificial cranial modification.
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Facial reconstruction of a Bronze Age man who was buried in a kurgan in Ukraine. He belonged to the Catacomb culture, a direct continuation of Yamnaya. The earliest known evidence of the war chariot comes from Catacomb culture, predating similar findings in Sintashta culture.
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Facial reconstruction of the so-called Søgnekvinnen, a hunter-gatherer from Norway belonging to the Fosna–Hensbacka culture, dated to 7910-7600 BC. Reconstruction commissioned by O.M.
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Facial reconstruction of a Saka from Zhaosu, Xinjiang.
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Facial reconstruction of a Mycenaean Greek.
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Facial reconstruction of a Proto-Circassian from Myskhako, dated to 1st century AC.
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1. Map of ANE admixture 2. Hypothetical ANE reconstruction 3-4. WSHG reconstructions, a population that was 85-70% ANE total We're proud to announce - where you can view more reconstructions, maps and their general information.
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Facial reconstructions of two representatives from the Proto-Indo-Iranian Sintashta culture, which played a pivotal role in the eastward dissemination of R1a-z93.
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Facial reconstruction of a medieval East Georgian, dated to 600-1000 AC.
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Facial reconstruction of a man from Mayaki, Ukraine, who belonged to the Usatovo culture. Usatovo were possible IE Anatolian speakers. Their YDNA included: I2, J1, R1a, R1b, G2a2, and E1b. Autosomally, they were a mixture of Steppe Eneolithic, EEF, and Caucasus populations.
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Facial reconstruction of Ingegerd Olofsdotter, the daughter of the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung and Obotrite princess Estrid. She was the wife of Yaroslav the Wise of the Rurikid dynasty.
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Facial reconstruction of the Scythian king Skilurus, who ruled over Crimea in 2nd century BC.
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Facial reconstruction of a Late Bronze Age man buried in a kurgan in Utvinka, West Kazakhstan, who belonged to the Srubnaya culture.
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Facial reconstruction of a man belonging to the Srubnaya-Alakul culture, buried in the Nepljuevski kurgan located in Southern Trans-Urals.
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Facial reconstruction of a Black Sea Scythian.
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Facial reconstruction of a Chechen man buried in a kurgan in Bamut, dating back to 1400-1500 AD. Original sculpture made by Mikhail Gerasimov.
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Facial reconstruction of a Danish man from the Late Germanic Iron Age, who, according to archaeologists, was part of a mass sacrificial burial at Illemose.
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Map of 3500BC Middle East, showcasing the archeological cultures of the region.
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Map of Iberomaurusian and Natufian ancestry, & reconstructions of Kiffian and Tenerian specimen. These individuals lived during the Green Sahara period and were descended from Iberomaurusians and SSA populations. Their SSA traits became more pronounced by the Middle Holocene.
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Map of CHG ancestry in the Caucasus.
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A story about the descendants of the Ginchi Kura-Araxes and Yamnaya cultures... The Northeast Caucasians of Dagestan score the highest direct Yamnaya (via Catacomb) ancestry globally. Other people with similar Steppe levels have their Steppe ancestry derived from CWC instead.
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Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic Iranian Hunter-Gatherer. Standing at ~167cm tall, the woman was described as "a real Amazon, stronger, taller, and slenderer than average of ancient Greek, Medieval Norwegian, or modern American women."
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Map showcasing the Proto-Turkic ancestry in areas populated by Azeris and Azerbaijan's ethnic minorities.
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Facial reconstruction of an Eneolithic man from Bamut, Chechnya. His skeleton was buried in a kurgan, crouched on its back and covered in red ocher. Inventory incl. a flint arrowhead. The burial tradition is typical of Eneolithic Steppe populations, also known as Proto-Yamnaya.
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Facial reconstruction of a Vrykul from The Waking Halls, Gjalerbron, Howling Fjord. The skull was found by the Explorer's League and the recon. commissioned by Brann B. the skull features enormous dimensions, a (relatively) narrow face, and prominent brow ridge and mandible.
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Facial reconstruction of Hadji Murat, a Dagestani Avar military leader and naib of Imam Shamil, who played a significant role in the 19th-century Caucasian War.
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Facial reconstruction of an EEF from Poland, who belonged to the Globular Amphora culture.
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Facial reconstruction of an Afanasievo man from Altai, an early splinter group of Yamnaya that migrated far east. Tocharians are hypothesized to be their descendants. Much like the Yamnaya, they were predominantly R1b-z2103, but they also had cases of Q, J1 and R1b-L51.
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Facial reconstruction of a Kipchak from Saray-Jük, Kazakhstan, dated to the 13th-15th centuries.
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1) Map showcasing the Mycenaean/Ancient Greek ancestry in modern Greeks. 2) Reconstruction of a Mycenaean.
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Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya man from Ukraine.
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Facial reconstruction of an EHG (Eastern Hunter-Gatherer) from Yuzhny Oleny Ostrov, Karelia.
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Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya Samara woman.
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Facial reconstructions of Sarmatians from Filippovka Kurgans, Orenburg region, Russia. Commissioned by renowned anthropologist and facial reconstructor Aleksey Nechvaloda for a Museum exhibition in Moscow. Visit our blog for the reconstruction process:
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Facial reconstruction of an Iron Age man from Ossetia, Koban culture. Koban likely arose from a movement of G2a1-rich Kartvelians from Georgia into the territories of the preceding Northcaucasian culture. Eventually, Nakh and Steppe Iranics integrated into the Koban network.
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Facial reconstruction of a participant from the 14th century Battle of Visby, Gotland, Sweden.
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Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic Ukrainian from the Vasilievka 3 site. Original sculpture made by Galina Lebedinskaya.
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Facial reconstruction of a Celt from Iron Age Slovakia, belonging to the La Tene culture.
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Facial reconstruction of Sigurd Magnusson, also known as Sigurd the Crusader. He was the King of Norway from 1103 to 1130. Renowned for leading the Norwegian Crusade, earning him the title "the Crusader," he was the first European king to join a crusade personally.
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Map illustrating the total fertility rate in the Caucasus region.
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History of the G2a1 haplogroup: G2a1, also known as G-Z6552 is one of the main Y-DNA clades of the modern Caucasus. Among present-day ethnicities it is most common in Georgians, Ossetians and Karachay-Balkars. 1/6
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Facial reconstruction of a Neolithic man from the Dashoguz region of Turkmenistan, who belonged to the Kelteminar culture. Anthropologically classified as "South Europid," he exhibited cranial affinities with representatives of the Jeitun and Anau cultures.
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Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic Nubian forager from Wadi Halfa.
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Facial reconstructions of two East Georgians buried at Samtavro in Mtskheta, dated to 400-100 BC.
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Facial reconstruction of Upper Cave 101, an individual from Zhoukoudian, China. The individual is likely dated to 29,000 BP, making him a probable member of the Tianyuan genetic cluster.
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Artistic reconstruction of a Tarim mummy associated with the Xiaohe cultural horizon.
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Facial reconstruction of a 14th century Circassian, buried in a kurgan at Kuban.
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Facial reconstruction of La Braña, a WHG/Western Hunter Gatherer from Mesolithic Spain.
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Happy Saint George's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿! Facial reconstruction of Agnes of Antioch (1154 – 1184). She was the daughter of the crusader Raynald of Châtillon and Constance, Princess of Antioch. She became the Queen of Hungary as the first wife of Béla III.
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Facial reconstruction of a man from Viking Age Sweden with decorative teeth-filings.
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Facial reconstruction of a Fatyanovo man by Lebedinskaya. Colorized based on his hirisplex result.
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Facial reconstruction of an individual belonging to the Eneolithic Anau culture of South Turkmenistan. Man was a cromagnid with a morphological affinity to the hunter-gatherers found at Hotu, Iran. He represents the ANE-rich end of the Iran_N cline.
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Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic Caucasian Hunter Gatherer from the Grotto of Satanai, Northwest Caucasus.
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Facial reconstruction of a forager from Mali with Iberomaurusian affinities.
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1) Facial reconstruction of a Sarmatian from Rostov Oblast, Russia. 2) Map showcasing the Sarmatian/Early-Alan ancestry in various people inhabiting North Central Caucasus.
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Facial reconstruction of a Medieval Georgian from Sioni, often referred as the "first Caucasionic". Caucasionic is the main anthropological type in the Greater Caucasus. It is characterized by brachycephaly and highest cheekbone breadth average among extant Caucasoid populations.
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Facial reconstruction of an Israelite from Ein Gedi, dated to 300BC.
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Facial reconstruction of a Natufian from Eynan.
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Artistic reconstructions of the earliest sampled Sredny Stog kurgan IE elites. The man in Vynohardne kurgan, Zaporizhzhia region, who was Yamnaya-like and carried I2-L699. The man in Krivyanskiy kurgan, Lower Don, who was Yamnaya-like with additional CHG and carried J2-M319.
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Facial reconstruction of an Eneolithic man from Koskuduk, Kazakhstan. Nothing is known about his DNA, however craniometric analyses suggest that he was in the same cluster as the specimens from the Copper Age Nalchik cemetery, who were possibly Steppe Eneolithic (Proto-Yamnaya).
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Facial reconstruction of a (likely) proto-Iranic from the Alakul culture.
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An ethnographic map of the Caucasus.
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Facial reconstruction of an Egyptian from Thebes, dated to the 18th Dynasty. Check out our latest update with more reconstructions, maps and a brand new blog feature.
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Jomon facial reconstruction.
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Facial reconstructions of Maykop Novosvobodnaya, Steppe Maykop and Yamnaya individuals. They represent people that played an important role in the dynamics of the EBA Pontic-Caspian Steppe. Check out for more reconstructions, maps and other services.
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Facial reconstruction of a LBA man from Azerbaijan. He was marked with a branding iron on his forehead and then beheaded. Later, it is believed that the culprits sent his remains to his family who buried him in a kurgan, along with a rapier and other valuable items. 1/4
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Facial reconstruction of Oberkassel, a Magdalenian from Germany.
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Facial reconstruction of an Early Bronze Age Kumsay woman from Kazakhstan.
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Facial reconstruction of an individual from the Abkhazian Dolmen culture. The Dolmenians were megalith builders of the Bronze Age. They largely descended from Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers, with the remaining ancestry being East Anatolian.
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"Staredown" between representatives of the Andronovo culture and BMAC. Based on facial reconstructions made by Mikhail Gerasimov and Elizaveta Veselovskaya.
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Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya man from Early Bronze Age Ukraine.
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Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic forager from Lepenski Vir.
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Facial reconstruction of a Chechen man from Duba-Yurt, Chechnya, dated to the Alan-Khazar period (700-900 AD).
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Facial reconstruction of a man from Bronze Age Armenia, who was buried in a stone cist near Sevan.
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Facial reconstruction of a man buried in a kurgan in Samara, who belonged to the Poltavka culture, an eastern offshoot of the Yamnaya that influenced Proto-Indo-Iranics. His grave goods included a bronze chisel, a needle, an awl, and molds, presumably for casting adzes.
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History of the J-Z1842 haplogroup (1/4): J-Z1842 was associated with one of the most widespread archaeologic culture of Bronze Age West Asia. It is most popularly associated with the Kura-Araxes Culture (KAC) that spawned in East Georgia, North Armenia and North Azerbaijan.
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Facial reconstruction of a man buried in a kurgan in Poludni, Samara, who belonged to the Yamnaya culture.
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Facial reconstruction of the Mesolithic Caucasian Hunter Gatherer from the Grotto of Satanai, Northwest Caucasus.
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Facial reconstruction of a Bronze Age man from Dagestan. His culture was a continuation of a local Kura-Araxes branch known as the Ginchi culture. Ginchi samples from Dagestan belonged to a major Kura-Araxan J1-z1842 lineage, which is also the dominant YDNA in modern Dagestan.
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Facial reconstruction of a man from Viking Age Gotland. Reconstruction commissioned by j s.
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Facial reconstructions of the "father and son" from Borum Eshøj, also known as the "old man" and "young man" from Borum Eshøj, Denmark, belonging to the Nordic Bronze Age.
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Facial reconstruction of a forager from Vovnihy, Ukraine, of the Dnieper-Donets culture. Vovnigi 2, burial 33: His massive skull, measuring 200mm in length, 164mm in width, 150mm+ in height, with a facial width of 165mm, stands out as one of the largest brachycephalic craniums.
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