TY - JOUR
T1 - Craniofacial reconstruction of the Indus Valley Civilization individuals found at 4500-year-old Rakhigarhi cemetery
AU - Lee, Won Joon
AU - Shinde, Vasant
AU - Kim, Yong Jun
AU - Woo, Eun Jin
AU - Jadhav, Nilesh
AU - Waghmare, Pranjali
AU - Yadav, Yogesh
AU - Munshi, Avradeep
AU - Panyam, Amrithavalli
AU - Chatterjee, Malavika
AU - Oh, Chang Seok
AU - Hong, Jong Ha
AU - Wilkinson, Caroline M.
AU - Rynn, Christopher
AU - Shin, Dong Hoon
N1 - Funding National Geographic Society (Asia 21-15)
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - Despite academic efforts to study the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), there have as yet been no successful attempts to unveil the IVC people's craniofacial appearance. We investigated the IVC cemetery area of Rakhigarhi site, which was estimated to be of 2273 ± 38 and 2616 ± 73 years BCE. By craniofacial reconstruction (CFR) procedure using computed tomography (CT) data of two Rakhigarhi skulls (A1 BR02 and A2 BR36), we successfully reconstructed the faces of the IVC individuals who were buried about 4500 years ago. This is the first attempt to unveil scientifically accurate representations of IVC people's actual facial morphology.
AB - Despite academic efforts to study the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), there have as yet been no successful attempts to unveil the IVC people's craniofacial appearance. We investigated the IVC cemetery area of Rakhigarhi site, which was estimated to be of 2273 ± 38 and 2616 ± 73 years BCE. By craniofacial reconstruction (CFR) procedure using computed tomography (CT) data of two Rakhigarhi skulls (A1 BR02 and A2 BR36), we successfully reconstructed the faces of the IVC individuals who were buried about 4500 years ago. This is the first attempt to unveil scientifically accurate representations of IVC people's actual facial morphology.
KW - Computed tomography
KW - Craniofacial reconstruction
KW - India
KW - Indus Valley Civilization
KW - Rakhigarhi cemetery
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074355496&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11497/
U2 - 10.1007/s12565-019-00504-3
DO - 10.1007/s12565-019-00504-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 31578677
SN - 1447-6959
VL - 95
JO - Anatomical Science International
JF - Anatomical Science International
IS - 2
ER -