Its involvement in the Conquest Man project reflects the concentration of this expertise in specialized institutions.

The British Geological Survey’s contribution, providing the expertise and reference data for the strontium isotope analysis, reflects a similar concentration of geochemical expertise in an institution whose primary mission is geological mapping and resource characterization but whose data and methods have become essential for archaeological science.

The University of Southampton’s involvement in the isotope analysis, and muVIS in providing imaging support, reflects the geographic distribution of relevant expertise across British universities and research institutions.

The Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, though a relatively small team by the standards of large research institutions, occupies a distinctive position in its field because of the forensic orientation of its work, which demands a level of methodological rigor that purely artistic or popular reconstructions do not require.