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Our technique, however, doesn't stop here. The computer used for the recreation can also drive a milling machine. This allows us to shape a block of hard foam into a 3-dimensional model of the face. This model, together with detailed still photographs of the original skull, allows a sculptor to recreate the face with life, expression and colour. The sculptor can also add the features that do not remain on the skull and cannot , therefore, be recreated by the computer. Features such as the shape of the nose and ears or the colour of the eyes and hair can, as with the murder victims , be predicted with some accuracy.
CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE by Pauline Spence At the end of the conference at York last year we all felt that it would be difficult to follow such a successful weekend. However John Adams, with Gwil and Eis Owen in Cambridge, organised a conference that equalled or surpassed last year's and we had a very enjoyable time.
We can now, for the first time in a thousand years, come face to face with an inhabitant of Viking-age York. Over the next few months, more of the figures in the Viking Centre will be replaced with recreations of the real inhabitants of Jorvik. At last the streets and alleys of this Viking-age city - found by archaeologists over ten years ago - will be populated by their original inhabitants.
Wl arrived in Cambridge on Thursday so that we could have some time to look 11uund the colleges and take photographs before the conference started.
Friday evening was registration in the medireval School of Pythagoras in College with cheese and wine followed by a film on cricket as played 111 th South Sea Islands where the MCC rules were greatly modified by local ·11stoms. Hence the teams ·were of an indeterminate number and ritual dances \ 1 • performed after each wicket had fallen. '1 John's
Saturday morning was devoted to talks in the Museum of Archreology ,111dAnthropology, starting with an account of the work carried out by the
