Australopithecus africanus

Personal project. At this moment it is displayed in the natural history exposition of Ministry of mines and energy, Windhoek, Namibia.

Live size

2019

For the clean building time I used, approximately, 4 weeks.

The basis for this reconstruction is the skull Sts 5 aka Mrs Ples. In making the reconstruction I used a mix of techques. Partly for forensic human data and part anatomy of primates.

Grosse tieranatomie, Gottfried Bammes,
Animal anatomy for artists, E. Goldfinger,
From Lucy to language, D. Johanson & B. Edgar,
Forensic facial Reconstruction, Caroline Wilkinson,
Making Faces, John Prag and Richard Neave,
Forensic analysis of the skull, M.Y. Iscan and R. Neave,
Forensic Art and Illustration, Karen T. Taylor,
Atlas of Anatomy, Thieme,
The facefinder, M.M. Gerasomov,
Atlas van de menselijke anatomie, Sobotta,
Photographic and descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Gorilla, CRC Press.