Section 4:
Bone Injury and Disease Skeletal Analysis
- Below is another example of the difference in bone injury and disease in forensic cases vs. skeletal biology cases.
Forensic
Anthropology Evidence of Pathology |
Skeletal
Biology Evidence of Paleopathology |
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Blunt Trauma Trauma resulting from blunt force injury (from
objects such as bricks, 2 by 4's, hammers, etc.) actually crush bone. Though dark, this picture of a cranium shows
blunt force injury just above the eye orbit. See if you can make out the outline of the
fracture...This injury was likely caused by a mallet. |
Dislocation This left hip joint shows that the femoral head dislocated anterosuperiorly from its original place within the acetabulum. The cross section of the femoral neck is seen in the post-excavation break, which faces you. Osteoarthritis secondary to the trauma is evident.
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