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Indlæser... Making Faces: Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidenceaf John Prag, Richard Neave
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. John Prag, Keeper of Archaeology at the Manchester Museum and Honourary Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Manchester partnered with Richard Neave the Artist in Medicine and Life Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Nursing at the University of Manchester to create this fascinating book on facial reconstruction of skulls discovered on archaeological digs, police files, and bog bodies. Their reconstructions are amazing. ( ) Fascinating stuff. Made me wish I had a single artistic bone in my body, as this whole reconstruction scene would be a personal ideal career. Alas! Not an artist. This is an immensely readable book about a very learned and interesting subject-the whole story of the reconstruction of what is putatively the face of Philip I of Macedon is exceptional; some of the other stories are a little more sinister. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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This 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.
Applied also to modern criminal investigations, facial reconstruction brings together the work of numerous specialists ranging from dentists to geneticists, and from archaeologists to radiologists. The important historical implications of their work are no more strongly demonstrated than in their confirmation that the body resting in Tomb II at Verginia was that of King Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great: when the face was reconstructed, the eye-injury received by Philip at Methone was unmistakable. Making Faces takes the reader into byways of forensic study, surgery and folklore and reveals how the art of facial reconstruction has opened up whole new vistas of the past. No library descriptions found. |
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