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Dr. Diane Markowitz is a dentist and
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rowan University and a research
associate at the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers
University in New Jersey. She requested Taylor’s assistance
with a research project on statistical analyses of childhood dental development.
Taylor used her technique of 2-D facial reconstruction to predict the
faces of three children based on radiographs of skulls from the Smithsonian
Institution.
With the same respect and reverence she holds for crime victims, Taylor
reconstructed the profile faces of the three young Native Americans.
Though all three were originally believed to be of the Arikara tribe,
Taylor’s results suggest that the female
child might be of the Mandan tribe.
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