Ancestral Whispers

Facial and hypothetical artistic reconstruction commissions are open. Visit ancestralwhispers.org to get a glimpse of our work and services. To delve deeper into the methodology behind our reconstructions, visit ancestralwhispers.org/blog/reconstru…

MDS plot of ancient and modern Iberian DNA samples + their affinity to Barcin and Yamnaya. Circled groups in the bottom are Hunter Gatherers and admixed Cardial Neolithic farmers.

Facial reconstruction of a 3,300-year-old man from Bay-Dag, Tuva, Mongun-Taiga culture. The culture is linked to Karasuk, with a spread into Altai & Mongolia, later evolving into Deer Stone complex. Learn more about their role in Scythian ethnogenesis: musaeumscythia.substack.com/p/the-origin-o…

Facial Approximation based on LB-1, a Homo floresiensis female discovered at the Liang Bua cave in Flores, Indonesia, dated to approximately 80kya. Dubbed the 'Hobbit' for her estimated height of 3'7, the species appears to be a hominin example of island dwarfism.

Facial reconstruction of a man from the Quxuroba necropolis, Qusar region, northeastern Azerbaijan (400–700 AD). He had an artificially deformed skull and a mixed West–East Eurasian morphology, likely a Hunnic migrant that settled in the area.

Map of the ethnogenesis of the Proto-Indo-Europeans: Which team are you on? 🌊Dnieper-Donets 🏞 Rakushechny Yar (Lower Don) 🏔 Zamok (North Caucasus) 👁 Seroglazovka (Lower Volga) Comment below ⬇️

Facial reconstruction of a Neolithic Iranian from Ali Kosh. The people of Ali Kosh, like many Neolithic populations in the Middle East, practiced head binding and incisor ablation. The frontal skull image was created based on the structure of the profile skull photo.

Facial Approximation based on Dmanisi 5, a Homo georgicus male found at the Dmanisi site in Georgia, dated to approximately 1.8mya. The Dmanisi hominins are some of oldest fossil human remains found in Eurasia, and resemble a middle point between Homo erectus and Homo habilis.

Facial reconstruction of Homo Longi, a Denisovan from Harbin, China Recently confirmed as a Denisovan. He possessed a massive skull measuring 221 mm in length and 164 mm in width, with a cranial capacity of 1,420 cm³. Reconstruction created in collaboration with @InterspeciesFa1

Facial reconstruction of a 2,800-year-old Koban culture man from Ossetia. The Koban culture was a Kartvelian-Colchian expansion into North Caucasus, where it both influenced and was influenced by the peoples of the Post-Dolmen Horizon and Kayakent-Khorochoi culture.