Classify Skull

[Psychonaut]

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]

Looks Europeid, male with Cro magnion influences (the jaw)?.

[Jarl]

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]

Beethoven?
just guessing...
http://rexsy.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Beethoven.143180205_std.jpg

[Jarl]

;) Bach...

[Tabiti]

I think it looks more like Beethoven;)
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9981/bach.jpg

[Treffie]

Bachs's chin seems more rounded, the skull's chin looks more Faelid looking.

[Jarl]

:) But I KNOW it is Bach's.

[Treffie]

:) But I KNOW it is Bach's.

Typical! :D

[Jarl]

Here is more on the reconstructions of Bach's visage ("The Face of Bach"):

http://www.npj.com/thefaceofbach/QCL09.html

[Allenson]

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]

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.