Video: The sculptor-archaeologist creates the most accurate portraits of people who lived several thousand years ago
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We see how the Neanderthals, ancient Greeks, Vikings and our other distant ancestors looked like in the movies or in pictures, but this is just a stylization. Nevertheless, even in the 21st century there is an opportunity to see the faces of those who lived before our era, in the most accurate reproduction. The sculptor and archaeologist from Sweden Oskar D. Nilsson creates realistic reconstructions of ancient people based on real artifacts, and it's just amazing!
For thousands of years, humanity has passed a long evolutionary path, changing not only intellectually, but also externally. This prompted the Swedish sculptor and archaeologist Oskar Nilsson to recreate the "copies" of ancient people, from whom we are separated by thousands of years.
In his incredible work, Oscar uses a method to reconstruct a portrait of a person based on real bone remains. Oscar is personally involved in archaeological excavations. Each of his works is replete with a huge amount of detail. Hair, eyebrows, wrinkles on the face - all this makes you believe that in front of you is not a sculpture, but a real, living person.
One of the works of Nilsson, unique in terms of accuracy, is the image of a young Greek girl who lived about nine thousand (!) Years ago. Her skull was discovered by archaeologists in the early 1990s in the Greek cave of Theopetra, where people of the Mesolithic era once lived. By the outstanding jaw and the characteristic features of the structure of the Greek woman's skull, one can judge how difficult life was for people in those days. According to scientists, the girl's jaw is very strongly developed due to the fact that she had to chew on the tough skin and meat of animals. The sculptor recreated the skin color and eye color of the girl, based on the general characteristics of the population of this region.
No less interesting is the portrait of a Neanderthal woman, whose skull was found in 1848. The sculpture is on display at the Brighton Museum (England).
Another reconstruction associated with a very distant period is the so-called girl from Tibrind. Her remains were found in Jylland (Denmark) and they are about seven thousand years old. The figure is on display at the Danish Moesgaard Museum.
With the assistance of specialized craftsmen and scientists, Oskar D. Nilsson provides reconstructions of his archaeological finds, created in 3d and 2d, to renowned world museums. The demonstration of these works is often accompanied by lectures, which are read not only in museums, but also at universities and at conferences.
The sculptor explains that for him a person's face is a source of inspiration and a motive that never ceases to fascinate and never get bored. Each face is unique for the master and each recreated character is a vivid individuality.
By the way, Oscar with amazing accuracy and skill also recreates the images of real characters - famous people. Among them, for example, Winston Churchill and Alfred Nobel. And Nilsson very vividly conveys the emotional states of ordinary people from different eras, including our contemporaries.
And more recently scientists managed to reproduce the voice of a 3000-year-old mummy.… Now you can hear how our distant ancestors spoke.
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