eli5 Anthropological Renditions

Question

I always see articles of anthropologist finding bones from a long time ago (prehistoric) And through research they end up with super detailed description of the kind of lives they lived, what they ate, what they might had worked at, and even how they looked. What I am most curious is about the visual renditions. Even more recently with Egypt renditions.

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I think the way they do it is they look at the DNA of the bones and compare it to that of the modern human genome. Iirc there’s certain parts that when put together can determine how someone might have looked.