Facial reconstruction of a 43,000-year-old woman from the Czech Republic. Her remains represent an early phase of a culture such as the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP). The IUP is recognized as one of the earliest modern human cultures in Europe. The Zlaty kun individual is notable not only as one of the oldest anatomically modern humans to have her genome successfully sequenced, but also because her DNA represents a lineage that is basal to, and predates, the later genetic split between East an