tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post8992840721848620347..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: The many faces of MooraDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-70028357097450180342011-03-20T17:49:39.639+02:002011-03-20T17:49:39.639+02:00New article on Greek scientist who does facial rec...New article on Greek scientist who does facial reconstructions:<br /><br />Q&A: Facing the past: Manolis Papagrigorakis<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7336/full/471035a.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20110303Steven C Perkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03578164804219522899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-72511079592442087212011-03-20T17:48:38.391+02:002011-03-20T17:48:38.391+02:00New article on Greek scientist who does facial rec...New article on Greek scientist who does facial reconstructions:<br /><br />Q&A: Facing the past: Manolis Papagrigorakis<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7336/full/471035a.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20110303Steven C Perkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03578164804219522899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-35278596261200271422011-02-04T10:56:52.434+02:002011-02-04T10:56:52.434+02:00Wittwer-Backofen is foremost an anthropologist, bu...Wittwer-Backofen is foremost an anthropologist, but also developed a new reconstruction technique that is being used successfully in police cases. So, she surely has a good background for this type of work.<br /><br />The girl would not have looked like a well-nourished head of household or main maid, but rather like a sickish, undernourished, poorly dressed and perhaps dirty young woman.<br /><br />In German:<br /><br />http://www.stern.de/digital/computer/kriminalistik-computer-helfen-bei-identifizierung-unbekannter-leichen-505118.htmleurologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440019181278830033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-77641329750960362912011-02-04T10:37:22.675+02:002011-02-04T10:37:22.675+02:00Or Walt DisneyOr Walt DisneyBjorn Witloxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04623921502432144434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-86894692847279798272011-02-04T09:34:44.406+02:002011-02-04T09:34:44.406+02:00Look at the horrid typo...I shouldn't type so ...Look at the horrid typo...I shouldn't type so fast.<br /><br />KNOW is the correct word*<br /><br />There is/ are some type of measurement(s) they use for the thickness of muscle tissue...I wonder why they did not do it that way???AdygheChabadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303595735003236434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-68996264041263975172011-02-04T09:00:47.388+02:002011-02-04T09:00:47.388+02:00Photo #1 bears some resemblance to former German t...Photo #1 bears some resemblance to former German tennis player Steffi Graff.<br />Photo #2 looks like a space alien<br />Photo #3 looks very amateurish<br /><br />So IMO #1 is the most believable.pconroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312469574812832771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-90470383618068582782011-02-04T05:56:58.184+02:002011-02-04T05:56:58.184+02:00The first reconstruction is the only one that look...The first reconstruction is the only one that looks like a teenager. Number 2 would be legitimate for a middle-aged woman and number three looks like a Neanderthaless. Perhaps the forensic artists were not given the age. At any rate, it seems like the "best" reconstruction would be an average of the three.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609656795972246431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-15170685398762053202011-02-04T02:38:04.265+02:002011-02-04T02:38:04.265+02:00Number 3 looks like Susan Boyle.Number 3 looks like Susan Boyle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-33503750935932650322011-02-03T16:30:35.808+02:002011-02-03T16:30:35.808+02:00I think this shows that facial reconstruction is p...I think this shows that facial reconstruction is pretty much a scam.sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-71479819996989874722011-02-03T16:08:15.793+02:002011-02-03T16:08:15.793+02:00They look totally different, especially 1 and 3.
...They look totally different, especially 1 and 3.<br /><br />So what is the point of these pictures?<br /><br />lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-81719825993184565622011-02-03T14:54:13.286+02:002011-02-03T14:54:13.286+02:00Number 3 looks like someone mentaly disabled.
Pos...Number 3 looks like someone mentaly disabled.<br /><br />Possibly she was.<br /><br />The article I read was, that she might have been a slave and that she must have been beaten to the head often. She suffered from a lot of sicknesses, wich must have made her live a hell and she must have suffered by low food minimum the half of all her years.<br /><br />Her eyes are unusualy close together and Her mouth is very small.Fantyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07969348276219179258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-25751788290492495672011-02-03T12:31:17.743+02:002011-02-03T12:31:17.743+02:00The forensic scientist reconstructed a very emanc...The forensic scientist reconstructed a very emancipated 21e century woman.<br /><br />The drawing of Caroline Wikinson seems to me as a classic German farmers wife.B.M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04144023091377945683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-29129599801272321472011-02-03T11:27:42.064+02:002011-02-03T11:27:42.064+02:00I like the renderings by Ursula Wittwer-Backofen (...I like the renderings by Ursula Wittwer-Backofen (Universität Freiburg) best. Some of the others look rather semi-professional, to put it mildly. I like his one a bit better than the one Dienekes blog page:<br /><br />http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/01297/cl_moora5_DW_Wisse_1297421p.jpg<br /><br />At any rate, the ones by Wittwer-Backofen also happen to resemble women living in that area today, at least to some degree.eurologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440019181278830033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-54819494891082495372011-02-03T09:44:48.221+02:002011-02-03T09:44:48.221+02:00reconstruction #2 shows a somewhat mongoloid face....reconstruction #2 shows a somewhat mongoloid face.blogspothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08306407964340745535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-57521619898823543962011-02-03T09:21:07.253+02:002011-02-03T09:21:07.253+02:00Hmmm, I think the forensic scientists would no bet...Hmmm, I think the forensic scientists would no better than anyone else concerning re-constructing flesh on bones...many times they have to do that anyway to get an approximation of John/ Jane Doe's appearance.AdygheChabadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303595735003236434noreply@blogger.com