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La Brana Man - NEW Western Hunter-Gatherer reconstruction!
La Brana Man 1 was a Stone Age European. His skeleton was discovered by archaeologists at the La Braña-Arintero site in León (north-west Spain) and DNA testing has revealed that this ancient European man lived over 7,000 years ago.
For this reconstruction of La Brana Man, the artist and I were inspired by this official illustrative reconstruction of La Brana Man created by Pelopanton, here.
As with most, if not all Western Hunter-Gatherers, La Brana Man had dark hair, blue eyes and perhaps a darker complexion than modern Europeans but no darker than a sun-kissed Southern European.
La Brana Man 1 was a Stone Age European. His skeleton was discovered by archaeologists at the La Braña-Arintero site in León (north-west Spain) and DNA testing has revealed that this ancient European man lived over 7,000 years ago.
For this reconstruction of La Brana Man, the artist and I were inspired by this official illustrative reconstruction of La Brana Man created by Pelopanton, here.
As with most, if not all Western Hunter-Gatherers, La Brana Man had dark hair, blue eyes and perhaps a darker complexion than modern Europeans but no darker than a sun-kissed Southern European.
Fun facts on La Brana Man:
-La Brana Man was found with typical Mesolithic personal ornaments, consisting in 24 perforated atrophic red deer canines that were used embroidered on a cloth. The widespread presence of these perforated red deer canines in other Mesolithic sites, but especially in those from Central and Northern Europe, suggests that La Brana Man had close cultural affinities with those distant regions.
-La Brana Man belonged to the very rare Y-DNA lineage C6! Haplogroup C was once one of the most common lineages of the Paleolithic Europeans that predated Mesolithic Europeans. The vast majority of haplogroup C clades are today specific to Eastern Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
-He was discovered in a cave 1,500km above sea-level with another Western Hunter-Gatherer labelled "La Brana 2" whose skull did not survive over the millennia.
-La Brana Man was found with typical Mesolithic personal ornaments, consisting in 24 perforated atrophic red deer canines that were used embroidered on a cloth. The widespread presence of these perforated red deer canines in other Mesolithic sites, but especially in those from Central and Northern Europe, suggests that La Brana Man had close cultural affinities with those distant regions.
-La Brana Man belonged to the very rare Y-DNA lineage C6! Haplogroup C was once one of the most common lineages of the Paleolithic Europeans that predated Mesolithic Europeans. The vast majority of haplogroup C clades are today specific to Eastern Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
-He was discovered in a cave 1,500km above sea-level with another Western Hunter-Gatherer labelled "La Brana 2" whose skull did not survive over the millennia.
Hope everyone has been having a good Yule month celebration so far! 🍺
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North Sea lads doing North Sea things.
All Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG) Reconstructions:
Cheddar Man
Rødhals Man
Villabruna Man
Téviec Woman 1
Bichon Man
Loschbour Man
LaBrana Man
Ostorf-Tannenwerder Burial III
Cheddar Man
Rødhals Man
Villabruna Man
Téviec Woman 1
Bichon Man
Loschbour Man
LaBrana Man
Ostorf-Tannenwerder Burial III
Up next will be the full body reconstructions called Mesolithic Europeans: Reconstructions.
The series will provide a glimpse into Mesolithic European life with imaginative scenes of our WHG friends doing things that they might have done in history. For example, a proposed theory regarding Bichon Man's death at the hands of the female bear his skeletal remains were mingled with, is that he sat at the entrance of the cave and made a fire to smoke the bear out of hiding. The full body reconstructions will endeavour to recreate scenes like this and we will include real archaelogical items where necessary for each one.
The series will provide a glimpse into Mesolithic European life with imaginative scenes of our WHG friends doing things that they might have done in history. For example, a proposed theory regarding Bichon Man's death at the hands of the female bear his skeletal remains were mingled with, is that he sat at the entrance of the cave and made a fire to smoke the bear out of hiding. The full body reconstructions will endeavour to recreate scenes like this and we will include real archaelogical items where necessary for each one.
Forwarded from Survive the Jive: All-feed
New paper on over 1000 bog bodies shows the practice continues from 9000 BC almost constantly. It was most common of all during the early Neolithic and again in the Iron/Roman Age, especially around Scandinavia and the British isles.
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It's an event!
Death of Talos, detail from a Greek vase, 5th century BC - Jatta Archaeological Museum, Italy
Talos was a Greek being made of bronze created by Hephaestus. Talos was given to Minos by Zeus or Hephaestus, and guarded the island of Crete by walking round the island three times a day.
Whenever Talos saw strangers approaching, he made himself red, hot in fire, and embraced the strangers when they landed. He had one vein in his body which ran from the head to ankles, and was closed at the top with a nail.
When he attempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by throwing stones at them, the wife of Jason the Argonaut Medea threw Talos into a state of madness using magic. According to others, Medea convinced Talos that he would become immortal if she removed the nail from his head which caused him to bleed to death.
Talos was a Greek being made of bronze created by Hephaestus. Talos was given to Minos by Zeus or Hephaestus, and guarded the island of Crete by walking round the island three times a day.
Whenever Talos saw strangers approaching, he made himself red, hot in fire, and embraced the strangers when they landed. He had one vein in his body which ran from the head to ankles, and was closed at the top with a nail.
When he attempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by throwing stones at them, the wife of Jason the Argonaut Medea threw Talos into a state of madness using magic. According to others, Medea convinced Talos that he would become immortal if she removed the nail from his head which caused him to bleed to death.
Forwarded from Dan Davis Author
It's hard to conceive of a shape better suited to smashing in a human skull.
Male skulls across the Corded Ware horizon including the Scandinavian Battle Axe culture (now often called the Boat Axe culture because it's way lamer) often suffered impact trauma, more often on the left side of their head.
This was from battle axes being held in the right hand of their opponents being smashed into their heads.
Some academics argue these were from "ceremonial combat" rather than warfare but either way these lovingly made objects were - at least in part - made to be skull smashers.
Male skulls across the Corded Ware horizon including the Scandinavian Battle Axe culture (now often called the Boat Axe culture because it's way lamer) often suffered impact trauma, more often on the left side of their head.
This was from battle axes being held in the right hand of their opponents being smashed into their heads.
Some academics argue these were from "ceremonial combat" rather than warfare but either way these lovingly made objects were - at least in part - made to be skull smashers.