And unlike some ancient human nicknames that emphasize the spectacular or the tragic aspects of the find (such names have a long history in the field, not always in good taste), Zlatý kůň has a quality of plainness that seems appropriate to the difficulty of our actual relationship with this individual.

She is the woman from Zlatý kůň.

We don’t know her name.

We don’t know much else about her individually.

We know a great deal about her genome, something about her skull, and something — now, from the 2026 study — about the range of faces that her skull is consistent with.

That is what we have.

Comparing the Comparison: What Similar Studies Have Found

The Velemínská 2026 study is not the first to compare multiple reconstruction methods applied to the same specimen, but it is one of the most rigorous and the most systematic.