Tintype Mystery Skull

Why is there a skull in this family photo album? Redgrave Research Forensic Services unravels the mystery.

Thanks to librarians Kristin Parker Dhabolt and Nikki Hentz for bringing us this mystery, the Parker family, guest researcher Jen Morley, and the consulting anthropologists including Dr. Amy Michael, Amber Plemmons and Kelly Kamnikar.

Evaluation and facial approximation of Zaza Ink’s medical specimen skeleton

For this project, our team evaluated a tattoo shop’s privately collected medical specimen skeleton for age, sex and ancestry estimates, and then began to create a facial approximation of the individual. See the time lapse video on Zaza Ink’s facebook page! Click the images below to see them full-size Dr. Amy Michael used reference materials … Read more