Scientist reconstructs face of a boy who died some 8,300 years ago in Norway

The remnants of the boy were initially found in 1905 in the Middle Stone Age cave in Randaberg, along Norway's western coast, Live Science informs. He was named Vistegutten after the place where he was found.

A forensic artist named Oscar Nilsson spent the last several months recreating the boy's face from remnants of his skull and he was successful. Now, the full-body recreation is on display at the Hå Gamle Prestegard museum in southern Norway.

The boy is 1.25 meters tall, which makes him short even by Mesolithic standards. Osteologist Sean Dexter Denham of the University of Stavanger's Museum of Archaeology concluded that he had a disease named scaphocephaly. It is a condition when one's skull grows backward instead of sideways, and this caused his body to stop growing at 1.25 meters.

Lastly, scientists assume that Vistegutten may have died alone since he was found leaning against the wall of the cave.