{"id":2382,"date":"2021-04-16T09:51:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:02","slug":"facial-reconstruction-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/facial-reconstruction-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial Reconstruction breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elysia Greenway and Viviana Conti, graduate students from the Forensic Art MSc course at Dundee University, have used special 3D scanners to build up digital versions of skulls discovered during excavations to create lifelike facial reconstructions to reveal what people living in Leith up to seven hundred years ago may have looked like. These will build the foundations for analysing ageing bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2383\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2384\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/face-2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a look at Dundee University\u2019s news web page to find out more and have a closer look at this fascinating work: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/stories\/facial-reconstructions-give-first-look-centuries-old-edinburgh-dwellers?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Int%20Comms%20-%20210331%20Student%20Newsletter&amp;utm_content=Int%20Comms%20-%20210331%20Student%20Newsletter+CID_a89b4f8aa28d9318bd84e9d64530815e&amp;utm_source=campaign%20monitor&amp;utm_term=Read%20more\">https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/stories\/facial-reconstructions-give-first-look-centuries-old-edinburgh-dwellers?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Int%20Comms%20-%20210331%20Student%20Newsletter&amp;utm_content=Int%20Comms%20-%20210331%20Student%20Newsletter+CID_a89b4f8aa28d9318bd84e9d64530815e&amp;utm_source=campaign%20monitor&amp;utm_term=Read%20more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elysia Greenway and Viviana Conti, graduate students from the Forensic Art MSc course at Dundee University, have used special 3D scanners to build up digital versions of skulls discovered during excavations to create lifelike facial reconstructions to reveal what people living in Leith up to seven hundred years ago may have looked like. These will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-science"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}