Richard Neave, in his role as a Medical Artist, had voiced the opinion that the concept of using the skeletal remains, and in particular the skull, to recreate the appearance of some of the individuals as they may have appeared in life was perfectly reasonable.
This being an interdisciplinary study resulted in one of my senior medical colleagues recommending the work of Professor Harrison of Liverpool University in the 1950s, which led me in turn to the work of Kohlmann and Buchley and then to the work being undertaken in the USA and Russia.
Curiously, such work was to a large extent unknown and certainly unused in the UK. The initial projects in Egyptology quickly led into the forensic arena and method established which today is referred to as the "Manchester Technique".
Detailed reference to many of the cases especially of archaeological interest can be found in the book "Making Faces" by Prag and Neave (ISBN: 0714117439).
