The Swedish History Museum holds a large collection of bones of various kinds, including human remains. We living humans are both appalled by and attracted to visible evidence of death. The scanned human remains presented on Sketchfab from our museum are important museum artefacts, chosen because they represent a specific historical event. They also represent one of humanity’s worst acts: violence towards other humans. It is therefore our wish that you, as a viewer, use the 3D-models with respect. 

The image shows a human cranium with injuries on its left and front side. A small, square hole above the left eye and on the left cheek bone was probably caused by a pole weapon or a battle axe. The gash across the mouth could have been caused by a sword or a thin bladed axe.The cranium is one of several thousand artifacts found in a mass grave outside Visby on the island Gotland. All remains and objects found on the site stem from a battle between Gotlandic peasants and Danish mercenaries on 27 July 1361.

Cranium with injuries - 260727

This is a simple 3d shape wish can help you with your portraits, the rotation, the tilte and the angle of the camera for the overall shape of the cranium, simplefied as Andrew Loomis did. Called it Loomy because I got inspired by Proko :)
A full head with a jaw coming soon, hope you find this helpful

Loomis Method Head (Cranium Only)

Cranium and antlers of a male white-tailed deer *(Odocoileus virginianus)*

This species is native to the Americas, as far north as Yukon and as far south as Peru. It has been introduced in Europe, New Zealand, and Caribbean islands.
A population of 700 white-tailed deer in Seneca, New York carries a recessive gene for an all-white coat. About 300 of the 700 deer express this gene.

More Info on this species here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer

Accession number: 113.18

Captured with an Artec Spider 3D Scanner
https://www.artec3d.com/portable-3d-scanners/artec-spider-v2

White-Tailed Deer Skull With Antlers

From the "[Human Evolution Gallery](http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/galleries-and-museum-map/human-evolution.html)" at the Natural History Museum in London. 

"The first set of remains to have been found, LB1, was chosen as the type specimen for the proposed species. LB1 is a fairly complete skeleton, including a nearly complete cranium (skull), determined to be that of a 30-year-old female. LB1 has been nicknamed the Little Lady of Flores or 'Flo'." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis

I admit that I forgot to take a picture of the object label for this scan but I am failry sure I've identified it correctly based on these images  [1](http://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/discover/human-evolution/human-evolution-family-tree-with-skulls-graphic-hero.jpg) [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis#/media/File:Specimen_LB1.jpg)

Created in RealityCapture by Capturing Reality from 129 images in 00h:12m:11s.

LB1 - Homo floresiensis [skull]

***Homo sapiens*** 
  
Location: Cro-Magnon, Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France. 
  
Age: 27,700 years B.P. 
  
Material: plaster cast. 

Dimensions: length, 223 mm; width, 153 mm; height, 156 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp16-1 (cast).  Male cranium.  Discovered in 1868 by Louis Lartet.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Aidan Paul.

Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon I) Skull (1979rp16-1)

***Paranthropus boisei***

Location: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Age: 1.8 million years ago.

Material: epoxy resin cast.

Dimensions: length, 215 mm; width, 157 mm; height, 117 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp74 (cast).  Fossil discovered in 1959 by Mary Leakey and described by P. Tobias.  Represented the first reliable chronometric assessment of an early hominid.  Nearly complete cranium, called "Zinj."  Cast made by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Casting Program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Madelaine Azar.

Paranthropus boisei (2501.1rp74-1) - cranium

Human cranium from the anthropology department's collections at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, modeled with the permission of Dr. Robert Anemone.

Creator: Cory Henderson, undergraduate Anthropology and Biology student at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hardware: Camera (Unknown model and manufacturer)

Software: Agisoft PhotoScan Professional and Geomagic Wrap 2014

Cranium

***Pan troglodytes*** 
  
Location: Africa. 
  
Age: modern. 
  
Material: epoxy resin cast. 

Dimensions: length, 195 mm; width, 130 mm; height, 105 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp4-1 (cast).  Male chimpanzee cranium.  Cast manufacturer unknown.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Jordyn Gray.

Pan troglodytes (modern) (2501.1rp4-1)

***Homo erectus***

Location: Zhou Xian, China.

Age: 680,000-780,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 214 mm; width, 149 mm; height, 130 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp44 (cast).  Skull discovered between 1929 and 1936 in a cave near Zhou Xian, and lost during World War II.  Cast is based on descriptions, photographs, sketches, and reconstructions by Davidson Black and Franz Weidenreich.  Formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis and Homo erectus pekinensis.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Joy Mersmann.

Homo erectus (Peking Man) (1979rp10-1)-cranium

**Description:** This is a 3D laser surface scan of the nearly complete cranium of *Toxodon platensis*. The skull was purchased on 26 November 1833 by Darwin. It is between 126,000 and 11,700 years old. 

This has been scanned as part of the Museum’s Darwin Fossil Mammals digitisation project. Find out more at www.nhm.ac.uk/darwinsfossils.

**Comments:** This is the holotype specimen of *Toxodon platensis*. When a new species is proposed, a specimen is chosen to represent the species. This is called the type specimen or holotype. Types are important  and it is the responsibility of museums to care for these and make them available for study.

[What is *Toxodon*?
](http://ow.ly/4e4W30jkzw3)

**Specimen number:** NHMUK PV M 16560

Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0086786) and [specimen record](http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/darwins-fossil-mammals/resource/dadf577f-fa52-4f48-8cdb-d11c98448009) on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.

Skull of Toxodon platensis

Homo erectus georgicus, the skull is dated to 1.77 million years old and it is in good condition. Museum of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium). Made with CapturingReality.

The cranium was the smallest and most primitive Hominin skull ever discovered outside of Africa. In Africa, the Australopithecines and early Homo represent two distinctive evolutionary paths sharing a common ancestor. In Georgia the specimens, with a brain half the size of anatomically modern humans, were the smallest found at around 600 cm³ brain volume. The lenght is about 25 cm.

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Homo erectus georgicus

***Homo neanderthalensis***

Location: La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France.

Age: 56,000 - 47,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 243 mm; width, 159 mm; height, 143 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp15 (cast).  Cranium, from an almost complete skeleton known as La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 or “The Old Man,” was discovered in 1908 by A. and J. Bouyssonie and L. Bardon.  The remains were first reported by Marcellin Boule in 1913.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Madelaine Azar.

Homo neanderthalensis (1979rp15-1) - cranium

***Homo sapiens*** 
  
Location: Mugharet es-Skhul, Wadi el-Mughara, Israel. 
  
Age: 120,000 - 80,000 years B.P. 
  
Material: epoxy resin cast.

Dimensions: length, 218 mm; width, 144 mm; height, 147 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp37-1 (cast).  Fossil called Skhul 5, discovered in 1932 by T.D. McCown and H. Movius, Jr., and restored by C.E. Snow.  Nearly complete cranium.  Cast made by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Casting Program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Greer Taylor.

Homo sapiens Skhul 5 (2501.1rp37-1)

Scanned from the Modern Osteological Comparative Collection at the Idaho Museum of Natural History.

IMNH R-163 Bison Cranium

***Homo sapiens *** 
  
Location: Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe, Zambia. 
  
Age: about 125,000 years B.P. 
  
Material: epoxy resin cast. 

Dimensions: length, 231 mm; width, 145 mm; height, 145 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp35 (cast).  Cranium, known as Broken Hill 1 or Rhodesian Man, was discovered in 1921 and is the first early human fossil discovered in Africa.  Also classified as *Homo heidelbergensis*.  Cast made by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Casting Program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Jordyn Gray.

Homo sapiens (2501.1rp35) – cranium

***Homo sapiens***

Location: Mugharet es-Skhul, Wadi el-Mughara, Israel.

Age: 120,000 - 80,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 219 mm; width, 146 mm; height, 149 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp32 (cast).  Fossil called Skhul 5, discovered in 1932 by T.D. McCown and H. Movius, Jr., and restored by C.E. Snow.  Nearly complete cranium.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Steve Davis.

Homo sapiens (Skhul 5) (1979rp32)

*** Paranthropus aethiopicus***

Location: Lomekwi, West Turkana, Kenya.

Age: 2.5 million years ago.

Material: epoxy resin cast.

Dimensions: length, 215 mm; width, 150 mm; height, 105 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp19 (cast).  Fossil discovered in 1985 by Alan Walker.  Virtually complete cranium, known as the "black skull."  Cast made by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Casting Program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Chloe Scattergood.

Paranthropus aethiopicus (2501.1rp19)

Here is our recently completed Llama glama anatomical layout! This specimen is part of our osteology comparative collection here at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. We aren't sure where the specimen came from, as the records are incomplete, but the prep work on this specimen is rather crude. You will notice that the ribs and cranium look particularly rough, and assembling this skeleton was a tough job!

Llama glama

Using Advanced Photogrammetry and other cutting edge technologies I was able to generate a 1:1 Scale 3D Model of The Jebel Irhoud Skull(Cranium and Mandible) using reference video from this publication.

The first of our kind - scientists discover the oldest Homo sapiens fossils at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco
https://www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/2017/2017-06-07-the-first-of-our-kind/

Jebel Irhoud Skull Reconstruction

This model was obtained by applying advanced photogrammetry technologies and cutting edge techniques currently not applied to this field that have allowed me to recreate previously unattainable models like Harbin, Yunxian 2 and now HLD-6. This model represents a reconstruction of the HLD-6 cranium from the Hualongdong paleoanthropological site in Dongzhi County, Anhui Province, China.

The HLD-6 individual lived during the late Middle Pleistocene, approximately 300,000 years ago. Stratigraphic and geochronological studies place the Hualongdong hominin assemblage between roughly 331–275 thousand years ago.

This digital reconstruction was created using published anatomical descriptions and visual references from the study “Craniofacial reconstruction and morphological analysis of the HLD-6 skull” (Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 2025) and scaled using cranial measurements from the supplementary dataset of “The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans.”

Hualongdong 6 (HLD-6)

A 3D model of the Cephalax, a terrifying alien entity with a skeletal structure resembling fractured porcelain. The creature features an elongated, conical cranium, hollow black eye sockets, and a permanent rictus grin. Its body is composed of segmented, bone-like plates with dark fissures, and it possesses long, spindly limbs ending in sharp, clawed digits. The model is designed for high-fidelity rendering with realistic subsurface scattering on the bone material.

Cephalax - Bone Wraith

Semi-transparent sphere as the base of the cranium + semi-transparent lower part of the head with neck, bright colored guideline lines based on Andrew Loomis' method. The equator, meridians, jawline help understand head proportions from any angle. Perfect for practicing portrait drawing, studying 3D form, and training perspective. Created in Blender.

Loomis Head Study with a neck

Large adult canine (Canis familiaris) cranium, with all adult teeth present (right canine is loose and removable), skeletally mature (fused cranial bones and adult teeth fully erupted). 

To find out more visit the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1258953

ESS-F403EB Post Medieval Animal Remains

Semi-transparent sphere as the base of the cranium + bright colored guideline lines based on Andrew Loomis' method.

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