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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Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Richard Neaves Egyptian Encounter | 41 |
CHAPTER 4 | 53 |
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| Title | Making Faces: Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidence Issue 1 of Texas A & M University anthropology series Volume 1 of Texas A and M University College Station, Tex: Texas A & M University anthropology series Texas A&m Anthropology |
| Authors | John Prag, Richard Neave |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Texas A & M University Press, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Oct 13, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0890967849, 9780890967843 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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