This discovery is important for science. It is also important to artists who will have to draw Mesolithic people in a new way. “You see a lot of pictures of these people hunting and gathering and they look like modern Europeans with light skin. You never see a picture of a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes,” Lalueza-Fox said. The Spanish team compared the hunter-gatherer to modern Europeans from different regions to see how they might be related. They found that the ancient DNA was most closely related to the DNA of people living in northern Europe, in particular Sweden and Finland.
How will the discovery impact how artists should portray Mesolithic hunter-gatherers?
They should start drawing Mesolithic hunter-gatherers with dark skin and blue eyes They should start drawing light-skinned Mesolithic hunter-gatherers They should start using modern people from Sweden and Finland as models They should start featuring females more prominently when depicting Mesolithic societies