Paleoanthropological art of B. Petry: June 2015

I was fascinated as a child of paleoanthropology . I was about 9-10 years old when I tried with much joy and excitement to reconstruct a head of Australopithecus . My parents , especially my mother was not thrilled with my early passion for ancient apes . One day , she absolutely forbade me to reconstruct prehistoric apes . Mother's decision disappointed me but I had no choice. My mother was and is a very religious woman and I think my concern for ancient apes conflicts with religious ideas

Friday, June 12, 2015

Neanderthal beauty.

Homo heidelbergensis - reconstitution.

Homo heidelbergensis - sometimes called Homo rhodesiensis - is an extinct species of the genus Homo which lived in Africa, Europe and western Asia between 600 and 200 thousand years ago. Its brain was nearly as large as that of a modern Homo sapiens. Wiki

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Young woman heidelbergensis.

Back in time 600 thousand years. Young woman heidelbergensis. Reconstitution.