a night at the museum (9)

Posted by
Franz (Baden, Austria) on 13 March 2014 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.

another diorama at vienna's natural history museum's anthropological department introduces "lucy" and her man ... or what they might have looked like (© atelier elisabeth daynès, paris, france)

"lucy" is the name given to a female australopithecus afarensis, whose skeletal remains (or a considerable part of her skeleton at least) were found in the afar depression of ethiopia in 1974.
from wikipedia: "lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago,and is classified as a hominid [i.e. the family of primates, including modern man and his ancestors as well as the great apes]. the skeleton shows evidence of small skull capacity akin to that of apes and of bipedal upright walk akin to that of humans."
read more about "lucy" here !

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Steve Rice from Olympia, United States

An excellent image of our ancestors.

13 Mar 2014 6:12am

Tomek from PoznaƄ, Poland

Incredible travel back in time.:-) Superb series Franz.:-)

13 Mar 2014 6:50am

Ronnie 2¢ from Atlantic Shores, United Kingdom

Well, you look happy enough . .why worry what people say ?!

13 Mar 2014 6:53am

Doug from Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Are you sure you should be showing such intimate portraits of our politicians ;-)

13 Mar 2014 7:39am

J.R. from Urasoe City, Japan

Reminds me of my aunt Lucy, but that's another story:)

13 Mar 2014 11:52am

Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada

A flash back in time to our earliest ancestors! Nicely captured Franz! ;-)

13 Mar 2014 12:58pm

Lena from San Francisco, United States

Nice shot, indeed so detail, as real one....:-)

13 Mar 2014 2:51pm

Shiva from Berwick, Canada

Eine perfekte Aufnahme unserer Vorfahren -- hat grosse Ähnlichkeit mit meiner Tante Lucy und Onkel Karl !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vielen Dank und herzliche Grüße Monika

13 Mar 2014 5:05pm

omid from mashhad, Iran

Wonderful !!!

13 Mar 2014 5:13pm

Judy aka L@dybug from Brooksville, FL, United States

A great image, albeit a bit scary! ;D

14 Mar 2014 2:28am

Mariana Maoduš from Waterloo, Canada

wow .... amazing :)

17 Mar 2014 7:31pm