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Title: | Forensic Facial Reconstruction and Its Contribution to Identification in Missing Person Cases | Contributor(s): | Evison, Martin (author); Iwamura, Edna Sadayo Miazato (author); Guimaraes, Marco Aurelio (author); Schofield, Damian (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_28 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20955 | Abstract: | The earliest attempts to reconstitute the face from the skull so far recognised appear to arise from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) culture of circa 11,000-8000 BP (Settegast, 1990) centred on Jericho and adjacent regions of Jordan and the West Bank (Fig. 28.1). Archaeologists interpret these objects as having played a role in funerary, ancestor-worship, or similar such rites. These reconstructions were completed by modelling a facial surface in plaster. The eyes and eyelids were often replaced with cowry shells, and the skin complexion and facial features - including moustaches - were painted onto the plaster surface. The reconstructions are described as 'typized and conventional' and are not believed to represent reconstructions of ante-mortem appearance, beyond 'some features determined by the bony framework' (Strouhal, 1973, p.231). Nine millennia were to pass before the first scientific attempts to reconstruct ante-mortem appearance were to arise. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Handbook of Missing Persons, p. 427-441 | Publisher: | Springer | Place of Publication: | Cham, Switzerland | ISBN: | 9783319401973 9783319401997 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 039902 Forensic Chemistry | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 349901 Forensic chemistry | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 169999 Other education and training not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/245229083 | Editor: | Editor(s): Stephen J Morewitz & Caroline Sturdy Colls |
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