On top of the scientiﬁc impact, artists might have to rethink their drawings of the people. “You see a lot of reconstructions of these people hunting and gathering and they look like modern Europeans with light skin. You never see a reconstruction of a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eye color,” Lalueza-Fox said. The Spanish team went on to compare the genome of the hunter-gatherer to those of modern Europeans from different regions to see how they might be related. They found that the ancient DNA most closely matched the genetic makeup 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