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Swifterbantman

Project: P14, Swifterbantculture

Era: New Stone Age
Period: 4000 BCE, Neolithic period
adult
Age: 25-45

When this reconstruction was made in 2004, nothing was known about skin and hair color.

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Through international DNA research of skeletons from the same period, scientists now believe he had a dark skin color with dark hair. In 2024, therefore, this Swifterbant man was adapted to the latest scientific findings.

The skeleton of this man was excavated in the Flevopolder. He belonged to the Swifterbant culture, a population group consisting of hunter-gatherers, who also kept livestock and practiced small-scale arable farming. When he died, he was 25 to 45 years old. He was buried with a necklace of amber beads on his forehead.

His skull was scanned at the Red Cross Hospital Beverwijk by Dr. A. Kamphuis after which Dr. K.L. Vincken (ISI) further processed the digital data.

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  Swifterbant

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exhibitions:

Oud Land – Prehistorie van Flevoland
Batavialand
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15-06-2024
till 31-12-2024
De nieuwe steentijd in Flevoland
link

client:

Museum van het Nieuwlanderfgoedcentrum
link

cooperations:

dr. A. Kamphuis, Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis Beverwijk
CT scan
dr. K.L. Vincken (ISI)
bewerking en verwerking digitale data

maker body:

M. d'Hollosy

clothes:

M. d'Hollosy

Project: P14, Swifterbantculture

Era: New Stone Age
Period: 4000 BCE, Neolithic period
adult
Age: 25-45

When this reconstruction was made in 2004, nothing was known about skin and hair color.

lees verder
Through international DNA research of skeletons from the same period, scientists now believe he had a dark skin color with dark hair. In 2024, therefore, this Swifterbant man was adapted to the latest scientific findings.

The skeleton of this man was excavated in the Flevopolder. He belonged to the Swifterbant culture, a population group consisting of hunter-gatherers, who also kept livestock and practiced small-scale arable farming. When he died, he was 25 to 45 years old. He was buried with a necklace of amber beads on his forehead.

His skull was scanned at the Red Cross Hospital Beverwijk by Dr. A. Kamphuis after which Dr. K.L. Vincken (ISI) further processed the digital data.

changes

location:

  Swifterbant

exhibitions:

Oud Land – Prehistorie van Flevoland
Batavialand
link
15-06-2024
till 31-12-2024
De nieuwe steentijd in Flevoland
link

client:

Museum van het Nieuwlanderfgoedcentrum
link

cooperations:

dr. A. Kamphuis, Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis Beverwijk
CT scan
dr. K.L. Vincken (ISI)
bewerking en verwerking digitale data

maker body:

M. d'Hollosy

clothes:

M. d'Hollosy
Publications
video
printed matter
links
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