Humans attempted to reanimate the skulls of our dead for thousands of years. With the help of modern technology and ancient DNA, it’s now both an art and a science.
Humans have been trying to reanimate the faces of our ancient dead for thousands of years but modern technology has made facial reconstructions—like this one of a Native American teenage girl whose skeleton was discovered in a submerged cave in Yucatan—even more powerful.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.in his tracks—an instant in which archaeology and art collide.
An artist builds the muscle structure on a skull model of Peking Man—hominids who lived around 400,000 years ago in modern-day China—at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.The practice of facial reconstruction is older than you might think: as one team of bioarchaeological researchers, “the idea of reanimating a skull has been a part of the human story for thousands of years.
An individual’s sex, ethnicity, and weight and age at death all inform facial depth and other features, while their skull also possesses subtle markings that indicate the places where tissue was once connected to bone. “Sometimes it’s very easy to see exactly where the muscle was placed, because it leave stress marks or ridges on the skull,” says Nilsson. All this information helps the reconstructionist decide what goes where, resulting in an eerie anatomic model.
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