Prehistoric 5,000 year old 'Penang Woman' finally has a face

Five years after researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) found a prehistoric human skeleton, dubbed the “Penang Woman“, believed to be at least 5,000 years old, they scored another major breakthrough. This time around, the same researchers have put a face to the Penang Woman using the Forensic Facial Approximation method. The skeleton was found during the construction of a gallery for the Guar Kepah neolithic site in Kepala Batas in 2017. With the help of Cicero Moraes, a 3D graphics expert from Brazil, they used the 3D virtual reconstruction method to create the Penang Woman's facial features based on a scientific date obtained from a CT scan performed on the skeleton. The same team was also instrumental in reconstructing the facial features for the more than 10,000-year-old “Perak Man“ using the same method last year. Shaiful Idzwan Shahidan, the team's correspondent author, said they took between three and four months to come out with the facial features, which was completed on July 5. Shaiful said when they found the skeleton back in 2017, one of their objectives was to conduct a more in-depth study about the life of the Penang Woman. ---------------------------------- #NST #NSTTV visit us at our Facebook more news at and also