ANTHROP 3PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bone Cyst, Amputation, Shoulder Joint
9 Jan 2016
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Stress: continued use of specific bone leads to stress. Insufficiency: bone doesn"t form enough cartilage to be stable. Fracture = partial or complete break in bone. Healed fractures one of the most obvious pathologies in archaeological. Some fractures are more severe than others. o. Open (out of tissue), closed (not out of skin but broken all the way), But there are some exceptions like myositis ossificans traumatica. fractures, dislocations, sharp force trauma. Fracture timing: it is not possible to know how old a healed fracture is! Perimortem: at or around the time of death. Postmortem: after death; look for color changes and rough edges. Indirect: impact force travels through the bone(s), resulting in failure at a. Bending (break at one point that is bent), torsion (turning opposite more distant weak point. directions), axial compression (pushing into eachother), shearing (pulling sideways in different directions, tension (pulling in opposite directions) Bending / torsion / axial / shearing / axial tension.
