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Forged in Bone: Facial Reconstructions of Catoctin Furnace’s Enslaved Workers (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Cemeteries and Burial Practices" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. The forensic facial reconstruction of two of Catoctin Furnace's earliest workers is providing a visual bridge for translating current scientific findings to a broad audience, fostering dialogue on complicated subjects such as slavery, death, and disease while increasing public awareness of the...