Amateur reconstructions based on ancient skulls, grave goods, and imagination. Hair, eye, and skin colouring may be incorrect due to a lack of information.
One minute we're told white skin evolved to absorb vitamin D in colder climes, the next minute we're told WHG's ancestors had black skin all through the Ice-Age and manged to survive somehow.
Something fishy going on.
If you thought Horrible Histories was amplifying the propaganda, well, here's a new book aimed at children that also inserts sub-Saharan Africans into British history.
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The Ølby Woman burial from Zealand dated to 1400-1300 BC (Nordic Bronze Age).
She was buried in an oak coffin which helped to preserve her rich array of grave goods.
These included a large number of metal items, the remains of a corded skirt and an Egyptian blue glass bead.
Minoan Warrior belonging to the Minoan Civilization of Bronze Age Cyprus.
c.4,600-3,100 ybp
#bronzeage
#cyprus
#warrior
#minoan
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People who would have you believe WHG = Sub-Saharan African are clearly lying. Most academics only care about their legacy rather than the truth. I have nothing to lose.
Woman belonging to the WHG population of Téviec Island, Brittany. Based on skeletal/burial finds.
Eastern Hunter-Gatherer Woman based on the Popovo skull from northwest Russia. Mesolithic.
Hair, eye colour, and skin colour, are within range
#EHG
#EasternHunterGatherer
#Mesolithic
The Girl of Molzbach
Bronze Age, Hesse, Germany
Age 21 c.3,300 ybp
#BronzeAge
#GermanySimplyInspiring
Larger version. Less head in main tweet but more details.
I reposted it because I put the wrong burial number on the previous image.
Vovnihy 39
Dnieper-Donets Culture
Mesolithic Ukraine
c.8000-7000 ybp
Dnieper-Donets culture was a mix of EHG and WHGs, and likely played a role in the development of Pre-Proto-Indo-European languages.
Villabruna 1. Cismon Valley. Belluno, Italy. Epigravettian. C. 14,000 ybp.
The remains were found to carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1a-L754. This is the oldest documented example of haplogroup R1b found anywhere.
He was found buried with yellow ochre which I have put on his arms.
Celtic Briton. Incorporating various La Tene style objects from the era within 400 a year timeframe.
Waterloo Helmet
Torc from the Snettisham Horde
The Battersea Shield
The Gleninsheen Gorget
Late Bronze Age
Ireland
c.2,700 ybp
#ireland
#gleninsheen
#bronzeage
I like to think of the gorget representing the suns journey through the underworld.
Cheddar Man.
Cheddar Gorge.
Mesolithic England.
11,000 ybp.
Based on results by esteemed experts. He lived on a diet of cheese, pterodactyl, and fermented spice melange.
#CheddarMan
Eastern Hunter-Gatherer.
Mesolithic Eastern Europe.
Broadly 12,000 - 7,000 ybp.
Light to intermediate skin.
Blue or Brown eye colour.
Dark or light hair.
#EHG
#Mesolithic
European Neolithic Warrior
Imagined European Neolithic Warrior carrying a wooden spear and wearing a wicker helmet covered in leather and encircled by flax rope.
AI/Collage
The latest findings had the media claim that Otzi was as black as a West African, when in fact he was a fraction darker than previously thought. So, more like this deep Med skin tone.
Kostenki 14 Markina Gora Russia dating to 38,700 to 36,200 years ago. K14 carries more Neanderthal DNA than current Europeans. Suffered from possible brain damage. Reduced cranial capacity. Buried with his thumb in his mouth.
#upperpaleolithic
#konstenki