Skeleton Keys
An Introduction to Human Skeletal Morphology, Development, and Analysis
Published in October 1995
Book
Hardback
374 pages
978-0-19-505638-9 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook of human osteology focuses on both classroom and laboratory studies and field situations that physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and forensic pathologists encounter.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, num. fig.
numerous figures and tables
ISBN-13
978-0-19-505638-9 (9780195056389)
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Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Skeleton Keys
An Introduction to Human Skeletal Morphology, Development, and Analysis
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10/2006
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Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
Chapter 1: An introduction to the skeleton and bone; Chapter 2: The skull; Chapter 3: The postcranial, axial skeleton: The vertebral column, scrum, sternum, and ribs; Chapter 4: The upper limb; Chapter 5: The lower limb; Chapter 6: Teeth; Chapter 7: Aging; Chapter 8: Pathology: Disease, trauma, and stress; Chapter 9: Differentially expressed morphological character states: Nonmetric variation, race, sex determination; Appendix A: Bone synonymy; Appendix B: Regions and bones of the adult skeleton; Appendix C: Glossary of terms of position, orientation, and movement; Appendix D: Bone topography and landmarks; Appendix E: Identifying fragments: Determining anatomical position and side; Appendix F: Glossary of osteometric landmarks and anatomical regions; Appendix G: Osteometry; Appendix H: Comparative osteology: Human, deer, bear, pig