The institutional involvement of the Crick, along with Historic England, the British Geological Survey for isotope analysis, the University of Southampton, muVIS, an advanced imaging center, and Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, reflects the multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary nature of the project.

No single institution possesses all the capabilities required to produce the full picture the research aimed to create.

The Face Lab Method: From Skull To Reconstruction

The process by which Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University produced the Conquest Man facial reconstruction is worth understanding in some detail, because it illuminates both the power and the limits of what such a reconstruction can claim.

Forensic facial reconstruction, applied here to an archaeological specimen rather than a modern forensic case, is a probabilistic process, not a deterministic one.