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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Facial reconstruction of Stone Age Belgian woman reveals she had dark complexion

Archaeologists have reconstructed the face of a Stone Age Belgian woman and found that she had blue eyes and a dark complexion, shedding more light on the ancestry of modern Europeans.

The prehistoric woman’s fossil remains were unearthed in 1988 in the Margaux cave near Dinant.

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