Skeletal Biology

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Skeletal Biology

• with Paleopathology and Contemporary Pathology

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Skeletal Biology

• Interpreting biological information from skeletal
  remains
• Nonmetric variation Biological distance
• Diet
• Pathology Disease Trauma
• Cultural Modification
• Demography Vital Statistics

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1. Nonmetric Variation

• Discrete traits
• Discontinuous morphological traits
• Epigenetic variants

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From the teeth

• Carabellis cusp

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From the teeth

• Shovel-shaped incisors

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From the cranium

• Wormian bones

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From the cranium

• Wormian bones

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From the cranium

• Auditory exostoses

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From the postcranial skeleton

• Tibiotalar facets

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From the postcranial skeleton

• Squatting facets

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From the postcranial skeleton

• Tibiotalar facets

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2. Diet

• Microscopic analyses of dental attrition

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2. Diet

• Caries

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2. Diet

• Fluorosis

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3. Pathology Disease

• Dietary deficiency
• Porotic hyperostoses

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3. Pathology Disease

• Dietary deficiency
• Cribra orbitalia

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3. Pathology Disease

• Enamel hypoplasias

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3. Pathology Disease

• Harris lines

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3. Pathology Disease

• Scurvy suppression of osteoblasts

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3. Pathology Disease

• Rickets

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3. Pathology Disease

• Osteomalacia
• Osteoid does not mineralize

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Periostitis

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Osteomyelitis

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Treponemal Yaws(subadultslt15)

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Treponemal Yaws

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Treponemal Syphilis

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Treponemal Syphilis

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Treponemal Syphilis

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Treponemal Syphilis

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3. Pathology Disease

• Infectious
• Lytic lesions

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3. Pathology Disease

• Symptom of other diseases
• Leontiasis ossea (Pagets disease, fibrous
  dysplasia, hyperthyroidism, advanced leprosy)

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3. Pathology Trauma

• Pseudoarthroses

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3. Pathology Trauma

• Ankylosis

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3. Pathology Trauma

• Ankylosing spondylitis

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3. Pathology Trauma

• Trephination Ancient medicine?

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4. Pathology Anomalies

• Nonfusion anomaly

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5. Cultural Modification

• Headbinding

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5. Cultural Modification

• Headbinding

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5. Cultural Modification

• Cradleboarding

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5. Cultural Modification

• Footbinding

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6. Paleodemography

• Vital statistics
• Mortality
• Morbidity
• Survivorship

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6. Paleodemography
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