Making Faces - Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidence

John Prag and Richard Neave

ISBN 10: 0714117439 / ISBN 13: 9780714117430

Published by British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1997

About this Item

Account of pioneering work in reconstructing the facial appearance of ancient people. 256pp with index, illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. Silver lettering to spine. Minimal bumping to spine and slight marking to rear pastedown, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some edgewear and slight marking, otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 013172

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Faces - Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidence
• Publisher: British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714117439
• ISBN 13: 9780714117430
• Binding: Black Cloth Boards
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology

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Synopsis

In recent years, the authors have performed pioneering work reconstructing the facial appearance of ancient people using the evidence provided by their remains. Some were victims of sudden death, like 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. 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. Facial reconstruction brings together numerous specialists, from dentists to geneticists, archaeologists to radiologists. Here, both archaeologist and medical artist explain the historical circumstances surrounding each body, and give first hand accounts of the search for evidence to recreate a likeness. The historical implications of such work are revealed in their confirmation that the body in tomb II at Vergina was that of Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great. Step-by-step illustrations accompany a full explanation of technique.