Western Hunter-Gatherer facial reconstructions & media manipulation
Last night I was making this image https://i.imgur.com/9rvOAoD.jpeg for a short article explaining why WHG were not "black" (will publish the longer version some other time).
I noticed that the Loschbour Man reconstruction video (https://youtu.be/2NJ6Ks9qwRQ?t=382) clearly used different lighting on his skull vs his face, subtly darkening the image to the point that his features blend into the background.
Something similar was done to the La Brana Man facial reconstruction sketches used in the press release (https://phys.org/news/2014-01-spanish-hunter-gatherer-blue-eyes-dark.html). It looks like someone messed with the brightness/contrast levels and darkened the whole image. You can see that it looks pretty unnatural compared to the adjusted version on the bottom.
They did the same thing with Cheddar Man. Compare the sculpture in natural lighting to the press shots used by the media.
Last night I was making this image https://i.imgur.com/9rvOAoD.jpeg for a short article explaining why WHG were not "black" (will publish the longer version some other time).
I noticed that the Loschbour Man reconstruction video (https://youtu.be/2NJ6Ks9qwRQ?t=382) clearly used different lighting on his skull vs his face, subtly darkening the image to the point that his features blend into the background.
Something similar was done to the La Brana Man facial reconstruction sketches used in the press release (https://phys.org/news/2014-01-spanish-hunter-gatherer-blue-eyes-dark.html). It looks like someone messed with the brightness/contrast levels and darkened the whole image. You can see that it looks pretty unnatural compared to the adjusted version on the bottom.
They did the same thing with Cheddar Man. Compare the sculpture in natural lighting to the press shots used by the media.