Last November , archaeology student Mahsa Vahabiaccidentally trip up uponsome pottery and a pile of osseous tissue . While head down Molavi Street near Tehran ’s Grand Bazaar , she noticed a stone innovation , bones , and pieces of clayware at the bottom of a construction land site for the metropolis ’s Water and Wastewater Company . She contacted veteran archaeologist Siamak Sarlak , and together they win over the Water and Wastewater Company to suspend their operation to make room for a right excavation .
The bones she take in proved to be part of a skeleton believed to go to a cleaning woman who live 7000 geezerhood ago — and now , new 3D imaging technology is evince us what she might have looked like .
A team led by Mohammad Reza Rokni of the Archaeology Research Center has spent the months after the discoveryreconstructing the skeleton ’s facial featuresusing " whole parts of the skeleton and the rule of symmetry of human skeleton to redo the missing parts or part which are bad for the Reconstruction Period . "
The reconstructive memory relied on pinpointing 11 item of the face on the eyes , nozzle , ears , cheeks , lips , and chin , and then adding grain digitally , based on modern human faces , to fill these speck and make the overall reconstruction appear more human .
And about that whisker : Rokni toldMehr News Agency , " since we had no vestige of the haircloth , choosing a colouration for hair was a issue of taste ; in doing so , we drew upon the signs in clayware found in Cheshmeh Ali [ a late Neolithic and Chalcolithic village in northern Iran ] … received model software system versions helped us synchronize and counterbalance . "
Even with these inferences , Rokni trust the images his squad created are 95 percent accurate to what the woman would have actually looked like 7000 years ago .
[ h / tArcheology.org ]
