Dead 12,000 years, Magdalenian Woman's makeover begins

This woman who has everyone so excited, where is her head?

"It's in my Subaru Forester, riding in the back seat with the seat belt," says anthropologist JP Brown, conservator for Chicago's Field Museum and protector of the "Magdalenian Woman."

Dead for more than 12,000 years, the ancient woman's skull, rebuilt from pieces of bone and plaster, makes the trip to Bensenville inside a waterproof, plastic cooler filled with "a boatload of packing," Brown says. Once the skull arrives at Alloyweld Inspection Co., in a nondescript building in a suburban industrial park, the real drama begins.

"Magdalenian Woman" is getting a makeover.

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