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Face of 9,000-Year-Old Greek Teenager Reconstructed
| her teeth indicated she was 18, "give or take a year," said Papagrigorakis.
[The Stone Age is] this enormously long period so unlike our age, but we are physically so alike," he adds.
"Avgi has very unique, not especially female, skull, and features. Myrtis, still a child, does not differ at all in the features we find around us today," says Nilsson.
| "Having reconstructed a lot of Stone Age women and men, I think some facial features seem to have disappeared or 'smoothed out' with time. In general, we look less masculine, both men and women, today."
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/archaeology-agvi-greek-stoneage-facial-reconstruction/
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| Facial features have "smoothed out" over millennia, and humans look less masculine today, says reconstructor Oscar Nilsson.
To reconstruct her face was no small feat. An endocrinologist, orthopedist, neurologist, pathologist, and radiologist were all needed to accurately reconstruct what Avgi would have looked like. The reconstruction team was led by orthodontist Manolis Papagrigorakis, who noted at the museum event that while Avgi's bones appeared to belong to a 15-year-old-woman,