When we reconstructed her face, the devastation wreaked by this condition on such a young person was shocking to see. Caroline then did a second reconstruction, showing how she would have looked if she had been healthy or could have been cured by penicillin. It is inevitable that we view an anonymous archaeological human skeleton with a certain amount of detachment but seeing the face of the young, flesh-and-blood woman more or less as she was, and as she could have been if fate had dealt her a better hand, dramatically brought home to everyone that we were dealing with a real person who had
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