“…While craniofacial superimposition has previously been described as a straightforward, long-tested, and wellaccepted procedure that is accurate [3, 7-9, 40, 41], the method is in reality a much more finicky and technical undertaking that at present lacks key validation components. While several technological advances have provided substantial prior method improvements, see e.g., [3,9,11,32,[62][63][64][65][66][67], technology alone has not resolved the full suite of superimposition's underlying weaknesses. Perspective distortion is one such integral issue that (1) has long been recognized in the superimposition domain [12,42,[46][47][48],…”