See 'hyperrealistic' reconstructions of 2 Stone Age sisters who worked in brutal mine in the Czech Republic 6,000 years [View all]

See 'hyperrealistic' reconstructions of 2 Stone Age sisters who worked in brutal mine in the Czech Republic 6,000 years ago

By Sascha Pare
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New reconstructions based on the skeletons of two sisters who lived in a prehistoric mining community in what is now the Czech Republic show what they likely looked like and wore.



3D reconstructions of two Neolithic sisters, one blonde and one brunette.
The sisters lived to be 30 to 40 years old, despite a life of hard labor and injuries. (Image credit: Vaníčková et al. 2025)



Researchers have unveiled two "hyperrealistic" reconstructions of adult sisters who lived and worked in a brutal mining community in what is now the Czech Republic more than 6,000 years ago.

The stunning, 3D reconstructions are based on a new analysis of the sisters' remains, which were unearthed more than 15 years ago from a prehistoric chert mine in the South Moravian region. New evidence suggests the sisters worked in the mine, extracting heavy rocks for tools and weapons.

The new study was published June 18 in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

The sisters were buried one on top of the other in a mining shaft. The first skeleton, belonging to the younger sister, was discovered 20 feet (6 meters) below ground, and the second skeleton was found 3 feet (1 m) below that. The women were buried in the shaft "probably because they had worked there," said study co-author Martin Oliva, an archaeologist at the Moravian Museum.

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