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Many times, a forensic artist will come across the problem of an edentulous skull: how can we do a facial approximation when there are no teeth? How do you know ...

An interesting article about forensic artist Jenny Barber, a graduate student at the University of Dundee, Scotland, who created a facial approximaton on a Stone Age skull from Norway.  “The skull, known ...

FACIAL APPROXIMATIONS are drawings and sculptures created from an unidentified human skull. These are the coldest of all cold cases. By the time a skull makes it to a forensic ...

The other day I posted the original 2011 Stephan and Simpson 2011 tissue depth tables, and reformatted them to not only make them a bit more user-friendly, but also did ...

Q: I am interested in a career doing facial reconstruction. It seems that all the jobs go to those in law enforcement. I really want to help victims and families, ...

Here is a fascinating interview with Dr. Hunt,  a physical anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C.: “As Our Skin Sags With Age, So Do Our Bones” ...

Do you want to be a Forensic Artist? The information is here within this site to help you reach that goal. I won’t sugar-coat it; it’s not an easy field ...