When local authorities find a decomposed body they can’t identify, what do they do?
Well, they send it to the LSU FACES Laboratory.
“It goes through a processing stage where anthropologists try to identify the gender, the race, and the approximate age range," says Larry Livaudais, the Imaging Specialist and Facial Reconstructionist at the FACES Lab. "Then after that it comes to me and I try to put a face to it as best I can with the clay.”