The Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University exists in a landscape of forensic and archaeological science that simply did not exist in the same form in the early 1980s.

This is the normal rhythm of major archaeological discoveries: a significant find is made, initial analysis is published, and then decades of subsequent work, using new methods as they become available, progressively builds a more complex and nuanced picture.

Conquest Man’s fifty-year study is an example of this process working as it should.

Each generation of researchers brought new questions and new tools to the same skeleton, extracting information that their predecessors could not.

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