Making Faces: Using Forensic and Archaeological EvidenceThis is the compelling story of pioneering work in reconstructing the facial appearance of ancient people. Archaeologist John Prag and medical artist Richard Neave give first-hand accounts of the exciting search for evidence to recreate a likeness and explain the historical circumstances surrounding each body. Some have been victims of sudden death, such as the Minoan priest and priestess crushed in an earthquake while carrying out a human sacrifice around 1700 BC, or 'Lindow Man', the Iron Age body found in a peat bog near Manchester in 1984, himself probably the victim of a sacrifice. Others have died peacefully, like Seianti, an Etruscan woman whose remains are in the British Museum; and some are famous like the great King Midas of Phrygia. |
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
CHAPTER | 13 |
Facial Reconstruction Techniques and the Forensic Evidence | 20 |
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Alexander ancient Andronicos Anemospilia appearance archaeological artist Athens beard Beta 52 Bodrum bog bodies bone British Museum Bronze Age burial buried Carian Carian Princess cast century BC Chapter colleagues cranium cremation damaged dead death ears Egyptian Etruscan evidence excavation eyes face facial reconstruction forensic fragments Gamma 51 gold Gordion Grave Circle Grave Gamma Greece Greek hair hairstyle head Hecatomnid identified Idrieus individual injury king later Lindow London look lower jaw Macedon Macedonian Manchester mandible mask Mausolus Midas Minoan modern mould mummy muscles Mycenae Mycenaean Mylonas nose peat perhaps person Philip Philip II Philip III Arrhidaeus Philip of Macedon photographs Phrygian pieces plaster portrait Priene Professor remains Roman royal sarcophagus Schliemann sculpture Seianti Shaft Graves shape side skeleton skull soft tissue story suggested technique teeth tion tomb Vergina wound Yde Girl Zeta 59