The female known as the Auning Woman, found in a northeastern Jutland bog 1886, and housed at the Museum for Culture and History in Randers, has finally got a face.
Reasonably well-preserved when she popped up from the bog, the woman’s 2000-year-old skull was broken into several pieces.
But sculptor Bjørn Skaarup and medical examiner Niels Lynnerup from the Panum Institute in Copenhagen have now reconstructed the Auning Woman’s face, using the common forensic clay method first developed by Russian anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov.
Artist’s conception of what the Auning Woman may have looked like:
Okay, not really. This was the only picture I found associated with that story, but I fear it is not the reconstruction, just some old woman:
(GAH! Made that sucker smaller, you’re welcome)
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