Presentation Year

2017

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Joanne GallagherAnthropologyUndergraduate Student,Sheena GlasgowAnthoropologyUndergraduate Student,Cathlyn GaribayAnthopologyUndergraduate Student,Lucy HerAnthopologyUndergraduate Student,Garrett GoodnightAnthropologyUndergraduate Student,Alexander GuerinAnthropologyUndergraduate Student

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Facial reconstruction is a method whereby the likeness of a person is reconstructed from the cranial skeleton. This projects involved researching facial reconstruction techniques and applying them to casts of hominin fossil skulls in the anthropology teaching collection. Species/specimens chosen to reconstruct include: (1) a juvenile Australopithecus africanus (the “Taung Child”), a 2.5 million-year-old hominin from South Africa; (2) an adult Paranthropus boisei skull; (3) also an adult Homo neanderthalensis found at the La Chapelle Aux-Saint, in France. To complete the reconstructions, we used a combination of tissue depth markers for humans and chimpanzees.

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Yes

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