Section 4:
Bone Injury and Disease Skeletal Analysis


 

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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