modern and ancient look-a-likes

[Thiudareiks Flavius]

I recall an episode of the British popular archaeology TV show <i> Meet the Ancestors</i> where they excavated a Bronze Age (? IIRC) grave in an English village and reconstructed what the guy in the grave may have looked like.<br>
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They then gathered the villagers in the church hall, unveiled the reconstruction and asked if it looked like anyone they knew. They all looked at the reconstruction and began laughing. Then everyone turned to one particular man, who was looking both embarrassed and amazed.<br>
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The reconstruction looked so much like him it could have been his twin.<br>
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Interestingly, the artist who made the reconstruction was working purely from the excavated bones - she hadn't even visited the village. Yet the resemblance between her reconstruction and this Twenty-first Century inhabitant of the village was uncanny. The man in question said that, as far as he knew, his family had always lived in the village.<br>
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So perhaps, in some places at least, we haven't changed much at all.<br>
Cheers,<br>
<p>Tim O'Neill / Thiudareiks Flavius
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