Boutin, Alexis
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/1494
2024-03-28T13:02:17ZFace to Face with the Past: Reconstructing a Teenage Boy from Early Dilmun
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/162741
Face to Face with the Past: Reconstructing a Teenage Boy from Early Dilmun
Boutin, Alexis T.; Nusse, Gloria L.; Sholts, Sabrina B.; Porter, Benjamin W.
Since 2008, the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project has analyzed the human skeletal remains and artifacts that Peter B. Cornwall excavated from Bahrain in the 1940s, now held in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. One mode of interpretation and dissemination pursued by the DBP team is forensic facial reconstruction. The subject of the first reconstruction is a twelve- to fifteen-year-old male who lived during the Early Dilmun period (ca. 2050–1800 .). The resulting sculpture incorporates skeletal data about his identity and health as well as visual cues grounded in archaeological and sociohistorical contexts. It will be one of two reconstructions at the center of a traveling museum exhibition beginning in 2013. The goal of the exhibition is to present members of past societies to the interested public in a tangible fashion that encourages empathy and an appreciation of our shared humanity.
Published by American Schools of Oriental Research via Near Eastern Archaeology and copyright of American Schools of Oriental Research. The definitive version of this article is available at: www.jstor.org/stable/10.5615/neareastarch.75.2.0068
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZOld Bones, Digital Narratives: Investigating the Peter B. Cornwall Collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/1495
Old Bones, Digital Narratives: Investigating the Peter B. Cornwall Collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum
Morgan, Colleen; Boutin, Alexis; Sheel, Jagani; Porter, Benjamin W.
A joint team of archaeologists from the University of California, Berkeley and Sonoma State University are examining a collection of artifacts and skeletal material excavated by Peter B. Cornwall in Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia in the 1940s and accessioned in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum. Motivated by modern innovations in the examination of skeletal materials and a greater awareness of broader Near Eastern history, we are considering this collection from a contemporary bioarchaeological perspective and in terms of the personal history of Peter B. Cornwall. In this article we discuss our progress, summarizing our analytical work on the objects and human remains, as well as our plans to document our research and the collections using a number of on-line platforms.
International Committee for University Museums and Collections
2010-03-01T00:00:00Z