Revolutionary advances in the science of facial reconstruction may soon make it much easier to identify missing people, including crime victims, when little more than a skull has been found.
Dr George Dias, a University of Otago senior lecturer in anatomy and structural biology, is excited by a series of recent developments which he believes will deliver huge benefits in forensic facial reconstruction within five years.
Dr Dias, who is part of a university forensic research group, said big advances were occurring both in the means of determining the individual characteristics of a person's face from their skull, and in the technology used to create a subsequent physical reconstruction of the head and face. . . .
The latest reconstruction had used computerised CT scan data obtained of a 2300-year-old skull, which forms part of an Egyptian mummy, long housed at the Otago Museum.
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