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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Cranium of a male in his early 20's, as used in the facial reconstruction for the exhibition 'Life, Ritual and Death' The cranium has two mandibles with it, one that was used in the reconstruction, now believed to be of a female and the presumed correct mandible identified by M. Wysocki, May 1998.
Skull and jawbone of a Neolithic man, about 3700 BCE.
This man was one of Wales’s first farmers. He lived in an Early Neolithic farming community in mid-Wales. People like him were the first to clear the wild woodland and create open land to raise sheep. They also built large communal tombs for their ancestors. When he died, his bones were buried in a chambered tomb at Penywyrlod, near Talgarth in mid-Wales. His skull and jawbone were mixed with bones of other community members.
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Site Name: Penywyrlod, Talgarth
Notes: found during emergency excavations carried out by the Dept. of the Environmant at Pen-y-wyrlod long cairn from lateral chamber, half way along NE side of cairn; disturbed but apparently found at NE end of chamber by farmer (mandible found furter SW, near centre).
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