She Has Been Dead For 45,000 Years. In 2026, Three Different Scientists Gave Her Three Different Faces — And Each One Revealed Something The Others Missed
She integrates pigmentation data.
She considers what is known about the population and period to which the individual belonged.
The interpretive judgment she brings — about how the anatomical data should translate into a living face — is genuinely informed by deep scientific knowledge, even if it goes beyond what the skull and genome can strictly determine.
And that judgment has produced results that, in cases where comparison is possible, have been validated as reasonable by experts who study the populations involved.
For Zlatý kůň, Daynès worked with the skull data, the genomic pigmentation evidence, and her accumulated experience of Upper Paleolithic human morphology.