Colophon · Vol. I
About the archive
The Craniofacial Lineage Project is a living atlas documenting mentorship, training, institutions, and legacy across generations of craniofacial surgery.
It is not a directory, a social network, or a crowdsourced wiki. It is a permanent historical record — closer to a museum archive or scientific atlas than to a website.
Priorities
- Historical preservation and legacy
- Exploration and discovery
- Professional identity and profile ownership
- Institutional history
- Education
- Workforce and training analysis
Editorial principles
- — Exploration is emphasized over search.
- — Memorial profiles remain visible in perpetuity.
- — Pioneers are preserved despite sparse historical data.
- — Imports never overwrite claimed profiles.
- — Animation is restrained: if you notice it, it is too much.
A field with a memory
Craniofacial surgery descended from a single Parisian table in 1967. Within a generation, fellows had carried the discipline to nearly every continent. This archive remembers them.