{"id":158121,"date":"2023-02-15T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-reconstruct-approximately-9600-year-old-zuzus-face"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:25:54","slug":"scientists-reconstruct-approximately-9600-year-old-zuzus-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-reconstruct-approximately-9600-year-old-zuzus-face","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reconstruct approximately 9,600-year-old Zuzu\u2019s face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reconstruct-approximately-9600-year-old-zuzus-face2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the skull has an affinity with an Asian population, among individuals of such ancestry, there are a large number of structural differences, which are circumvented by closing the eyelids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Found buried in the fetal position at Toca dos Coqueiros in 1997 in Serra da Capivara National Park, Zuzu lived in modern-day Brazil nearly 9,600 years ago. Zuzu\u2019s face has been wondered about by archeologists for years. Moreover, there were some controversies about Zuzu\u2019s sex. We could finally see Zuzu\u2019s face thanks to a new facial approximation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Moacir Elias Santos et al.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrying to recover the appearance that an individual had in life thousands of years ago is a way to bring them to the present day, bringing them closer to the public,\u201d first author Moacir Elias Santos, an archaeologist with the Ciro Flamarion Cardoso Archaeology Museum in Brazil, told Live Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlthough the skull has an affinity with an Asian population, among individuals of such ancestry, there are a large number of structural differences, which are circumvented by closing the eyelids.\u201d Found buried in the fetal position at Toca dos Coqueiros in 1997 in Serra da Capivara National Park, Zuzu lived in modern-day Brazil nearly 9,600 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}