He’s a Dutch Neanderthal. Seriously.
As you know, I am both.
Take a minute and go look at his face.
Now come back.
Cute, right? Plus, he’s thought to have lived in “Doggerland, the now-submerged region between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.” If that’s not cool I don’t know what is. I recently saw a theory somewhere that Doggerland was the inspiration for Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth, that his cycle of stories is supposed to be a history of very ancient times before those lands were swallowed up by the sea.
Now, we could quibble about how much this facial reconstruction owes to imagination. We’d need to know how big was the “piece of skull” used in it. Was it just a fragment, or was it a good bit of the skull? But as for me, I’m not going to look a gift Neanderthal in the mouth. (So to speak.) Also, I know someone who looks a bit like this. A little more chin, a little less nose, but still a human face.
Out of Babel 
“I’m not going to look a gift Neanderthal in the mouth.“ 😂
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Yes, and he could have had plastic surgery too. Also, did you see this: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/footprints-humans-arrive-in-north-america-scn/index.html?
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It’s possible! Remember the Stone Age Surgery post? 😉
I probably did see it, but I’ll check it out. Thanks.
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I would never have guessed you were Dutch. 😉
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My deep dark secret
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I love that he’s smiling. That immediately humanizes him more than the expressionless mugshot angles we’re often presented with.
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There are some really great ones out there now.
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Have you seen this collection of facial reconstructions of ancient Britons? It includes one Neanderthal woman.
https://www.livescience.com/64620-ancient-britons-facial-reconstruction.html
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Thanks
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Well hmmph.
I followed the link, expecting to see a lot of images, and saw … two. However, the article about how the faces were reconstructed was interesting.
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