Researchers reconstructed the face of a petite, dark-haired woman who was one of the wealthiest
She was buried with five bronze bracelets, two gold earrings, and a three-row necklace of more than 400 amber beads. Three bronze sewing needles were buried with her. It was part of the Unetice culture, a group of peoples from Early Bronze Age Central Europe known for their metal artifacts, including axes, daggers, bracelets, and twisted metal necklaces.
Although it is unclear who this woman was, she was veryrich, noted Michal Erne from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. “This is perhaps the richest female grave in the entire Unetice cultural region,” he told Live Science.
Accurate anthropological reconstruction of the image of a woman from grave no. 2, discovered in Mikulovice near Pardubice, Czech Republic. Image courtesy of the MZM archive
Having carried out radiocarbon dating of the grave whereHer bones were found, scientists found out that the woman lived between 1880 BC. and 1750 BC. The cemetery itself is located near the village of Mikulovice in northern Bohemia, close to the Polish border. The area and surrounding regions are known as Bohemia. In total, a huge number of artifacts were found in 27 graves in the cemetery, including about 900 amber objects.
From skeletal remains found in a cemeterynear Mikulovice, the best preserved skull of a woman in amber. According to scientists, it was a fortunate coincidence that the richest grave also contained skeletal remains, which could serve as the basis for reconstruction. The DNA remains helped scientists understand what color the woman's skin and hair were.
Anthropologist Eva Vanickova from the Moravian Museum inBrno and sculptor Ondřej Bilek together created a model of her torso. Scientists also recreated clothing and accessories using scientific data. Ludmila Barčakova from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences made an amber necklace and gold earrings, metalworker Radek Lukówka made bronze bracelets and needles, and textile archaeologist Kristina Urbanova sewed clothes.
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