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Craniofacial reconstruction of the Indus Valley Civilization individuals found at 4500-year-old Rakhigarhi cemetery

Authors: Won Joon Lee, Vasant Shinde, Yong Jun Kim, Eun Jin Woo, Nilesh Jadhav, Pranjali Waghmare, Yogesh Yadav, Avradeep Munshi, Amrithavalli Panyam, Malavika Chatterjee, Chang Seok Oh, Jong Ha Hong, Caroline M. Wilkinson, Christopher Rynn, Dong Hoon Shin

Published in: Anatomical Science International | Issue 2/2020

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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.

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Title: Craniofacial reconstruction of the Indus Valley Civilization individuals found at 4500-year-old Rakhigarhi cemetery
Authors: Won Joon Lee
Vasant Shinde
Yong Jun Kim
Eun Jin Woo
Nilesh Jadhav
Pranjali Waghmare
Yogesh Yadav
Avradeep Munshi
Amrithavalli Panyam
Malavika Chatterjee
Chang Seok Oh
Jong Ha Hong
Caroline M. Wilkinson
Christopher Rynn
Dong Hoon Shin
Publication date: 01-03-2020
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Keywords: Computed Tomography
Computed Tomography
Published in: Anatomical Science International / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 1447-6959
Electronic ISSN: 1447-073X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12565-019-00504-3

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