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Psychonaut
09-06-2009, 08:48 AM
Can you classify and/or guess the ethnicity of this skull? It's an historic person whose identity I'll reveal after a few guesses have been made. :D
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2553&stc=1&d=1252226823
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2554&stc=1&d=1252226823
If you, for some creepy reason, know who's skull this is, please don't cheat or ruin the quiz.
Tabiti
09-06-2009, 08:57 AM
Looks Europeid, male with Cro magnion influences (the jaw)?.
I think its one German composer... they say he was the greatest composer ever ;)
The skull is robust - which makes sense, coz Germans have on average considerably large heads. It resembles Oberkassel from the side. Though its much more elongated - both the face and the calvarium, and has well-rounded orbits.
Tabiti
09-06-2009, 09:10 AM
Beethoven?
just guessing...
http://rexsy.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Beethoven.143180205_std.jpg
Tabiti
09-06-2009, 09:30 AM
I think it looks more like Beethoven;)
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9981/bach.jpg
Treffie
09-06-2009, 09:33 AM
Bachs's chin seems more rounded, the skull's chin looks more Faelid looking.
:) But I KNOW it is Bach's.
Treffie
09-06-2009, 09:41 AM
:) But I KNOW it is Bach's.
Typical! :D
Here is more on the reconstructions of Bach's visage ("The Face of Bach"):
http://www.npj.com/thefaceofbach/QCL09.html
Allenson
09-06-2009, 12:55 PM
Yes, this looks to be a large skull. The frontal is long, low & sloping--similar to those often found amongst native Brits. The orbits are Cro-Magish and one feature that jumps out at me is the nasion depression and the rather protuding nasal bone. Whoever this was, had a rugged face and a beaky nose.
Lastly, the square jaw/flaring gonial angles lead me to an overall Faelid/Cro-Mag classification.
Good one! :)
Psychonaut
09-06-2009, 06:33 PM
If you, for some creepy reason, know who's skull this is, please don't cheat or ruin the quiz.
But I KNOW it is Bach's.
:tsk:
I was especially interested to see if anyone would've deduced his convex nose from the high, protruding skeletal nasal bridge.
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