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with dark eyes and a slight copper colored skin, and prominent cheekbones, with a slight smile. The woman was nicknamed the "Grandmother of the
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The produced work, which does not represent an exact facial reconstruction but an approximation or projection of how the woman could have been, took about seven days. The result of the reconstruction depicts a woman of 35 to 45 years of age of indigenous origin with some East Asian-like features,
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technique, taking 120 photos of the skull from different angles, that subsequently sent to Moraes for the digital reconstruction. Moraes then digitalized the anatomy in
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