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Anthropology

Siwsan

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1. I wonder if they will try to re-create his facial features from his skull bones

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Oct 7, 2020, 03:46 PM

Oct 2020

That always fascinates me. They did that at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, UK. A video showed the whole process, and what I saw, then, is likely very primitive compared to the techniques they use now. But it showed a very believable face of a man who had been dead for over 1,000 years.

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Newly Unearthed Warrior's Grave Poised to Redraw Map of Anglo-Saxon England [View all] Judi Lynn Oct 2020 OP

I wonder if they will try to re-create his facial features from his skull bones Siwsan Oct 2020 #1

I don't know.... AZ8theist Oct 2020 #2

Those forensic anthropologists can do amazing work with bits of bones. Siwsan Oct 2020 #3

Let's hope so... AZ8theist Oct 2020 #4