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Oscar Nilsson

The partial skull used to reconstruct the face of this man was discovered with other human crania and animal jawbones that had been deposited in a Swedish lake around 6,000 B.C. The artist who reconstructed this man chose to give him a cape made from wild boar—one of the animal species also found in the lake.

The reconstruction of the "Huarmey Queen" is based on her 1,200-year-old remains from Peru. It took specialist Oscar Nilsson 220 hours to complete.

Facial features have "smoothed out" over millennia, and humans look less masculine today, says reconstructor Oscar Nilsson, who recreated this face of a teenager who lived in Greece 9,000 years ago.

Adelasius Ebalchus, who lived in northern Switzerland 1,300 years ago. He was in his late teens or early twenties when he died.