Scientists at the Ancestral Whispers team have reconstructed the face of a woman who lived around 6,400 years ago at the Skhirat-Rouazi site in Morocco, offering a detailed glimpse into Neolithic life and burial customs in North Africa.
The burial shows the woman placed in a supine position with a slight rightward lateralization, oriented north–south.
Her head was flexed forward and turned slightly toward the northeast, while her body was tightly arranged, likely due to the constraints of the burial pit. Her upper limbs were kept close to the torso, with the right forearm bent toward the face and the left arm extended toward the pelvis. The lower limbs were strongly flexed, with the heels drawn close to the buttocks.
Facial reconstruction based on skh001, a 6,400-year-old woman from Skhirat-Rouazi, Morocco
The individual was buried in a supine position with slight rightward lateralization, oriented north–south. The head was in anterior and right lateral flexion, originally directed upward… pic.twitter.com/kcsxKGTN2d
— Ancestral Whispers (@Sulkalmakh) April 7, 2026
The grave included at least four ceramic vessels: one complete vessel placed on the pelvis, while others were intentionally broken and distributed around the abdominal and lumbar regions. Additional fragments found in the thoracic area appear to belong to the same vessels. A pebble was also found near the left elbow, and the burial fill consisted of reddish silty sediment with localized dark deposits, possibly ash or manganese.
Biological analysis estimates her height at around 158 cm. Genetic results indicate she carried the mtDNA haplogroup M1a1b, with ancestry reflecting a mixture of Levantine/Natufian-related populations and a smaller local Iberomaurusian component.
The Skhirat-Rouazi cemetery, discovered in 1980, contains 87 primary graves and 14 deposits, making it one of the most important Middle Neolithic funerary sites in northern Morocco.
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