Experts reconstructed the caveman's face from just a fossilized orbital bone.
Sea levels during Krijn's lifetime were roughly 164 feet lower than today, making Doggerland a cold plain that he would have shared with mammoths, reindeer and woolly rhinoceroses., a pair of"paleo artists" who specialize in facial reconstructions of ancient human remains, recreated Krijn's face in detail. In video footage, Adrie Kennis said Neanderthals had flat foreheads with prominent eyebrow ridges, protruding mid-faces and large noses and nostrils.
Kennis did not explain why they chose to give Krijn a smile, which puts his teeth prominently on display.Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, the Netherlands/Zenger The Kennises used a previously reconstructed French Neanderthal skull as their starting point, using the existing fragment and digital scans of other Neanderthal skull fragments to get an idea of what Krijn would have looked like.
For all his similarities to others of his era, Krijn is the only Neanderthal found with a tumor or bruise on his brow. The fossil and its smiley reconstruction will be on display until Oct. 31 as part of the"Doggerland" exhibit in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden.
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