reconstruction

A man who died in the Ecuadorian Andes more than 3,000 years ago has a face again. An international team has completed a digital facial reconstruction of the Punín-2 skull, a hunter-gatherer from what is now Ecuador's Chimborazo region, and the portrait has been shown to the people most likely to be his descendants. The work closes a century-old argument about a skull that some scientists once thought came from another continent — and his living relatives approved. Laguna de Colta in Chimborazo province, close to the parish of Punín where the Punín-1 and Punín-2 skulls were recovered (David Ceballos/ CC BY-SA 2.0 ) A Skull at the Heart of a Century-Old Argument The Punín-2 skull was recovered in 1974