Ancient murder victim, Pictish man, gets digitally recreated face

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Ancient murder victim, Pictish man, gets digitally recreated face

The face of a 1,400-year-old murder victim is seeing the light of day, now that scientists have digitally reconstructed his features.

The victim, a young Pictish man, met a grisly end when he was brutally murdered in what is now modern Scotland. Archaeologists found the man’s remains — placed in an odd, cross-legged position with rocks pinning down his arms and legs — during the excavation of a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire, in the Scottish Highlands.
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The man’s injuries indicate that a tool with a circular cross section made the first injury “that broke his teeth on the right side,” Black said. “The second may have been the same implement, used like a fighting stick, which broke his jaw on the left. The third resulted in fracturing to the back of his head as he fell from the blow to his jaw with a tremendous force, possibly onto a hard object, perhaps stone.”

The fourth impact was likely meant to end the man’s life . . . [t]he attacker, or attackers, drove the same weapon through the man’s skull, “from one side and out the other as he lay on the ground,” . . . .

I think this type of reconstruction is fascinating, but I'm always suspicious about how much is science and how much is creative license.

[TheReal_ND]

Pikeys being shot with arrows. Some things never change.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Looks kinda familiar...

[jbird4049]

They say he's a young man, but his doesn't look so young. Granted once one reaches their twenties, it starts to get hazy on estimating age.