Conquest Man benefited from all of these techniques.

The fifty years between his excavation and the facial reconstruction announcement maps roughly onto the period during which many of these techniques were developed, refined, and applied to archaeological contexts.

The People History Forgot

There is a specific kind of pathos in Conquest Man’s situation that goes beyond the general observation that most historical people left no trace.

He was a man who was known to someone.

He mattered enough to be buried with care in an oak coffin with a grass pillow, with apple wood staffs beside him, in a Norman knight’s private church.