Head Reconstruction By The Skull (Bulgarian Academic Monographs)

In its efforts to find what is basic in the characteristic features of human groups, anthropology has accumulated an enormous quantity of metric data on the general shape of the skull. The study of the correlation among morphological features as well as the critical assessment of the basic rules in the sphere of the outer morphology of the face are directed towards establishing the regularities in the relationships among features and to the formation of the notion of type.

It was precisely this that attracted the author's attention and urged him to deal with the plastic reconstruction of the appearance of people inhabiting the Bulgarian lands by using his own original methodology. Reconstructing the head by the skull is base on certain established correlations between the thickness of the soft tissue, the shapes, dimensions and structures of the parts of the face, on the one hand, and the anatomic peculiarities of the bones of the skull and the relief of their surfaces, on the other.

The existing relationship is verified by statistic data, significant, obtained in measuring the thickness of soft tissues on many points of the skull in individuals of different sex, age, anthropological type and nationality. Reconstructing the head by the skull is a specific activity in which the anthropologist restores the human face according the anatomic and topographic data collected from the study of the particular skull.