Question

Facial reconstruction is the process by which an artist reconstructs a face from skeletal remains. When the first evidence of a member of the genus Homo outside of Africa was discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia, French paleoartist and sculptor Elisabeth Daynès re-created what the "Dmanisi boy" may have looked like. Identify the steps in the facial reconstruction process.

a. usage of fossils as a baseb.creation of tissue and muscle out of clay

Answer 1

-usage of fossils as a base

-creation of tissue and muscle out of clay

Step-by-step explanation:

• The Dmanisi boy was the image of the skull discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia and it was discovered in 2013.
• The skull was discovered to belong to Pleistocene Homo species.
• The facial reconstruction of the skull was done by Elisabeth Daynès and the process she used for the reconstruction included using the fossils available as a base and then clay was sued to mold the tissues and muscles to reconstruct and show how the Dmanisi boy might have looked.