Taza Iberomaurusian Reconstruction

This is a facial reconstruction I did of a skull from the site of Taza in eastern Algeria which dates back to around 16,100 years ago and is associated with tools of the Upper Paleolithic Iberomaurusian culture. In life, the specimen would have been a woman who had her upper incisors removed, a tradition common to her people which persists among Nilotic peoples of East Africa as a preventative measure against lockjaw.

I obtained the photo of the skull from the following publication:

Robert J. Meier, Mohamed Sahnouni, Mohamed Medig, Abdelkader Derradji
Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Jahrg. 61, H. 2 (Juni 2003), pp. 129-140

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