{"id":133539,"date":"2023-11-15T01:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T01:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=133539"},"modified":"2023-11-15T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T01:56:41","slug":"face-of-neanderthal-man-shows-a-softer-side-of-the-extinct-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/face-of-neanderthal-man-shows-a-softer-side-of-the-extinct-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Face of Neanderthal man shows a &apos;softer side&apos; of the extinct species"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8216;Handsome face&#8217; of Neanderthal man who died 56,000 years ago reveals a &#8216;softer side&#8217; of the now-extinct species<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>A Neanderthal\u00a0skull found in 1908 was reconstructed to show the man&#8217;s face\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>It shows an &#8216;old man&#8217; with long, gray hair and a beard to match<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>READ MORE: Neanderthal genes linked to\u00a0 life-threatening form of Covid\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Artist impressions of Neanderthals show the face protruding forward with a broad nose, but modern technology has revealed a &#8216;softer side&#8217; to the\u00a0now-extinct species.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers reconstructed the face of a man who lived 56,000 years ago using skeletal remains found 115 years ago in France, revealing a &#8216;handsome&#8217; old man with a long beard.<\/p>\n<p>A Brazilian graphics expert who co-authored the study used\u00a0computed tomography (CT) scans of the ancient skull and compared them to human craniums in a database with similar measurements to fill in the blanks.<\/p>\n<p>The fossil suggests he was suffering from severe periodontal disease, a gum infection found in mammals, which experts believe &#8216;could be one of the first documented cases of zoonotic infectious disease spillover.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/18\/77568771-12725641-image-a-1_1699468203419.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Researchers reconstructed the face of a man who lived 56,000 years ago using skeletal remains found 115 years ago in France, revealing a &#8216;handsome&#8217; old man with a long beard<\/p>\n<p>Neanderthals were a species that lived alongside humans tens of thousands of years ago and were very similar in appearance and size but were generally stockier and more muscular.<\/p>\n<p>This primitive relative of humans existed for around 100,000 years \u2013 much of that time alongside people and breeding with them \u2013 before going extinct around 40,00 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The skull, found in\u00a0La Chappelle-aux-Saints in 1908, features a nearly complete mandible and cranium that experts determined &#8216;displays many &#8216;classic&#8217; Neanderthal traits, including a large, continuous brow ridge; a broad nasal aperture; a long and egg-shaped foramen magnum; a relatively flat cranial base (vs. modern humans); small mastoid processes; a long and low cranium; and large orbits,&#8217; according to\u00a0eFossils.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/19\/77568769-12725641-image-a-2_1699470884117.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The skull, found in La Chappelle-aux-Saints in 1908, features a nearly complete mandible and cranium that experts<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/19\/77568759-12725641-image-a-4_1699471474381.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Brazilian graphics expert who co-authored the study used computed tomography (CT) scans of the ancient skull and compared them to human craniums in a database with similar measurements to fill in the blanks<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<span>The fossil is often referred to as an &#8216;old man&#8217; because he was suffering from severe periodontal disease and joint degeneration or arthritis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;The ability of this individual to survive such severe ailments indicates that he probably had help from others.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This skull helped a team of international researchers turn back time to see what the Neanderthal man may have looked like before death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>C<\/span>o-author\u00a0C\u00edcero Moraes, a Brazilian graphics expert, told Live Science: &#8216;We generated two images, one more objective with just the bust in sepia tone without hair and another more speculative [and] colorful with a beard and hair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This image shows how Neanderthals were similar to us, but at the same time, they were different, with more obvious peculiarities such as the absence of a chin, for example.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even so, it is impossible not to look at the image and try to imagine what that individual&#8217;s life was like thousands of years ago.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/19\/77570669-12725641-image-a-5_1699471613513.jpg\" height=\"558\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;old man&#8217;s reconstruction vastly differs from another Neanderthal portrait shared in 2021 of a man called Krijm, who lived and died up to 70,000 years ago and had a curious facial disfigurement<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;old man&#8217;s reconstruction vastly differs from another Neanderthal portrait shared in 2021 of a man called Krijm, who lived and died up to 70,000 years ago and had a curious facial disfigurement.<\/p>\n<p>Krijn, a young man with a &#8216;fairly sturdy build&#8217; 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