ABSTRACT
At the turn of the last century, a pioneering researcher in forensic facial identi˜cation predicted that anthropologists in the new millennium would spend “considerably more time [trying] to understand the human face, how expressions are made and how the face changes” (İşcan 2001: 4). Commenting on the then 60-year contribution anthropology had made to forensic research and medicolegal processes, İşcan anticipated that diet, physical environment, disease, genetics, and ageing were prime sources for information on transformative human facial morphology. In the ˜rst decade of the 21st century, other practitioners evoked this shared perception of forensic anthropology as increasingly multidisciplinary (Cattaneo 2007), anticipating further ingress of improvements already achieved in “computer science and … medical imaging technologies,” which would continue to have “signi˜cant repercussions” in the ˜eld (De Greef and Willems 2005: 12).
