ANTHRO 129Q Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Trepanning, Sinusitis, Hard Tissue
9 Feb 2017
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In all the samples: (cid:1151) females and some of them are children, (cid:1152) males. Females were engaged in warfare iconography and art work. Injuries in warfare is probably one of the most common cause of trepanation injuries caused bleeding in the skull released pressure. Size of the weapons size of the trepans. When a trepan healed the 3 layers of bone (outer and inner table, spongy inner bone) don"t reform so single layer of hard cortical bone. Eg. high status people trepan filled with gold. To provide an escape route deviant let the defective agent out. Can be a bone from a trepanned skull. From a successful individual (great leader/great warrior/political leader etc might be trepanned after death in order to get a piece of skull to use as a fetish or amulet) In south america moche (spiritual side): tumi & other tools. Scraping wider on the outside than on the inside double edge.
