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The facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic Dog, Muge, Portugal
Moraes, Cicero; Pereira, Hugo Matos; Requicha, Joao Filipe; Alves, Lara; Alexandre-Pires, Graça; Jesus, Sandra de; Guimarães, Silvia; Ginja, CatarinaABSTRACT: This paper presents the facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic dog whose skeleton was recovered from the Muge shell middens (Portugal) in the 19th century. We used the anatomical deformation approach based on a collection of computer tomography images as an attempt to reconstruct the Muge dog's head appearance. We faced a few challenges due to the level of bone displacement and the absence of some cran...
The facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic Dog, Muge, Portugal
Moraes, Cicero; Pereira, Hugo Matos; Requicha, Joao Filipe; Alves, Lara; Alexandre-Pires, Graça; Jesus, Sandra de; Guimarães, Silvia; Ginja, CatarinaABSTRACT: This paper presents the facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic dog whose skeleton was recovered from the Muge shell middens (Portugal) in the 19th century. We used the anatomical deformation approach based on a collection of computer tomography images as an attempt to reconstruct the Muge dog's head appearance. We faced a few challenges due to the level of bone displacement and the absence of some cran...