A new reconstruction of one of Norway's oldest known skeletons shows a teenager with an unusual skull who may have died alone in a cave.
About 8,300 years ago, a teenage boy with an unusual skull and short stature may have scampered along the rocky coast of what is now Norway, pausing to regain his balance as he clutched a fishing rod. Now, a new full-body reconstruction of the Stone Age teenager — nicknamed Vistegutten, Norwegian for"the boy from Viste" — is on display at the Hå Gamle Prestegard museum in southern Norway.
"Either he was placed like this after his death, or he actually died in this position," Oscar Nilsson , a forensic artist based in Sweden who created the boy's likeness, told Live Science in an email."This can give the impression of a lonely boy, waiting in vain for his friends and family to show up … but we know nothing about how he died."Scaphocephaly occurs when the sagittal suture on the top of the skull fuses too early, giving the skull a ridged appearance.
To make the reconstruction, two computed tomography scans were taken of the skull, allowing Nilsson to create a 3D-printed plastic replica. Because he wasn't sure about the boy's facial tissue thickness, Nilsson relied on measurements of modern Northern European 15-year-old boys."Of course we don't know how transferable these measurements are to someone who lived 8,000 years ago," Nilsson said."But it's the best we can guess.
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